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Introduction to Christianity by the Pope of Rome published in Russian
Moscow, November 5, Interfax - Introduction to Christianity, a fundamental book by the Pope of Rome Benedict XVI is published in the Russian language, Blagovest-info religious agency reported Tuesday.
Introduction to Christianity now available to Russian readers presents the fundamentals of faith. Written in the crucial for the Church period with confusion after Vatican II and the student revolution of 1968, the book raises questions of God and Christ and shows the place of faith in the Church,’ the press release reads.
The Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad underscores the topicality of the book in his preface to it.
‘It may sound a paradox, but we, Christians, living in the early 21st century, need to be introduced to Christianity and come back to its sources,’ Metropolitan Kirill writes, advising ‘the Orthodox readers and all those believing in Christ and those seeking the way to the truth’ to read the book.
Joseph Ratzinger, the present Pope of Rome, called in his book to ponder whether God is the reality which is the main precondition of any realism. Nothing is sacred without Him.
'If a human person has no divine mystery in him, but is only a proof of his own inventiveness, what would he be for another human person?' - the author asks.