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The Next Battle For and Against Jesus Will Be Fought by the Book

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And the new book announced and released by Joseph Ratzinger will be the best-seller of the year. Here is the complete preface, in five languages.

by Sandro Magister

ROMA, January 15, 2007 – His book about Jesus was announced at the end of November, and will be on sale next spring. But a week does not go by without Benedict XVI preaching about the book’s protagonist: Jesus “true God and true man.”

It is as if Pope Joseph Ratzinger himself were already focusing on the book’s publicity campaign. A year ago, he did the same thing with the encyclical “Deus Caritas Est”: before its publication, he repeatedly spoke out to illustrate its essential contents, increasing the anticipation each time.

The last time Benedict XVI referred to his upcoming book about Jesus was the general audience on Wednesday, January 3.
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posted by Dr. Denice Hanley, DPM, M.Div. @ 4:12 PM