Ratzinger's achievements are significant not just for the following they've produced, but for the keen insights and teachings they contain.
Nowhere has Ratzinger's influence been greater than in theology, and specifically in expounding and defending the foundational beliefs of Christianity. In his now-classic Introduction to Christianity, published in 1968 at the height of the cultural revolution, Ratzinger not only defended biblical Christianity through a profound elucidation of the Apostles' Creed, but presented it as the only cure for the chaos then convulsing society.
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