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This is a good introduction to Catholicism, to say it's a good introduction to Christianity in general might be a bit ambitious. Ratzinger follows the apostolic confession and elaborates on it successively to cover most the important doctrinal issues that are central to western Christianity and especially the Catholic church. He is clearly well versed in the western philosophical cannon even though his understanding of Marxism is somewhat lacklustre. As a Lutheran there is little to disagree with and especially his points about the Church are important to take to heart even if we might be a splinter sect.

It's a good companion to reading the Summa, it is relatively close to the text without becoming a line by line commentary. My only gripe is Davies' need to remove Aquinas from his historical context and discussing what Aquinas would have thought about current issues. This is in my not role of a commentary, or should at least be demarked as such. Over all, the book has helped me in understanding Aquinas Summa and clarified many, if not all, of the vaguenesses of the text as well as introducing the philosophical and theological context of the Summa.

En bra men kanske lite för akademisk och lite för odogmatisk redogörelse för luthersk teologi. Åtminstone om jag jämför med Ratzinger och Ware som jag läst parallellt. Samtidigt har boken gett relativt god tydlighet i viktiga lärofrågor och överlag men inte uteslutande bekräftat min bild av luthersk teologi.