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About IgnatiusInsight.com
and the Insight Scoop web log
IgnatiusInsight.com and the Insight Scoop weblog are online resources
of Ignatius Press and are meant to assist readers who wish to learn more
about the Catholic Church and her teachings, beliefs, practices, and history.
Each week IgnatiusInsight.com features articles and essays by Ignatius
Press authors, as well as interviews with noted authors such as Fr. Benedict
Groeschel, Joseph Pearce, Peter Kreeft, Roy Schoeman, Glenn Olsen, Donald
De Marco, Benjamin Wiker, and others. Readers will also be able to read
excerpts from new and upcoming releases as well as from Ignatius Press
classics.
The Insight
Scoop web blog features daily commentary from Ignatius Press authors
and staff about theological issues, current events in the Catholic Church,
and a host of related topics.
 Carl
E. Olson is the web editor of IgnatiusInsight.com and the moderator
of the Insight Scoop weblog. Carl is the author of the best-selling Will
Catholics Be "Left Behind"? (2003), selected by the
Associated Press as one of the best religious titles of 2003. He is also
the co-author, with Sandra Miesel, of The
Da Vinci Hoax: Exposing the Errors in The Da Vinci Code, described
by Francis Cardinal George as "the definitive debunking" of
The Da Vinci Code. Carl is the former editor of Envoy magazine
and has written dozens of reviews and articles for periodicals including
Catholic Parent, Crisis, Envoy, First Things, National Catholic Register,
Our Sunday Visitor, Saint Austin Review, and The Catholic Answer.
You can send your questions and comments to Carl at carl@ignatius.com.
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Dogma And Preaching: Applying Christian Doctrine to
Daily Life (2nd Ed)
by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
This volume is an unabridged edition of Dogma and Preaching, a work that appeared in a much-reduced form in English, in 1985. The new book contains twice as much material as first
English edition. "Dogma", for many people, is a bad word. For the well-informed believer, it shouldn't be. Dogmas are truths revealed by God, which should enlighten the minds,
guide the choices, and gladden the hearts of Jesus' disciples, including pastors, deacons, and lay teachers. But, as Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), notes in the foreword
to this book, "The path from dogma to proclamation or preaching has become very troublesome." Finding ways to relate the content of the Church's dogmas to everyday life can be
challenging for today's preachers and teachers. Some people find the task so daunting that they leave dogma out. As a result, they wind up presenting something other than the
Church's faith and speak in their own name, offering perhaps unwittingly merely their own, subjective ideas, rather than the Word of God. In Dogma and Preaching, the theologian
and priest Joseph Ratzinger provides (1) a theory of preaching for today; (2) application of this theory to some themes for preaching drawn from the Church's dogmas; (3) meditations
and sermons based on the liturgical year and the communion of saints; and (4) some thoughts regarding the decade after the Second Vatican and Christianity's seeming irrelevance.
Ratzinger insists that sound preaching should rest on three pillars... Read more!
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