Because He Has Spoken to Us

“This significant landmark study is essential reading for all in catechetical leadership. Explaining how the ‘anthropological turn’ in catechetics progressed after the Second Vatican Council in the Rahnerian configurations of Moran, Boeve, Pollefeyt, and others, as the proclamation of the faith was correlated against the shifting self-understandings of a postmodern humanism, Bursa convincingly unfolds Ratzinger’s response to this, calling catechetics to recover its confidence in the logos, the person of Jesus Christ.”


—Petroc Willey, Franciscan University of Steubenville





“This marvelous book begins with a lucid presentation of the key elements of Karl Rahner’s dense theology. Bursa then persuasively links Rahner’s thought to the highly influential catechetical strategies of Gabriel Moran and Thomas Groome, and also to the postmodern catechetical strategies advocated by Didier Pollefeyt under the influence of Lieven Boeve. Bursa’s presentation of Ratzinger’s Christological or logos-centric personalism as the best alternative to these dreadful theological and catechetical approaches is absolutely masterful.”


—Matthew Levering, Mundelein Seminary





“This book is a comprehensive rendering of the fundamental theology of Joseph Ratzinger that shapes a much-needed assessment of the foundations of evangelization and catechesis. Bursa’s searching analysis exposes the Gnostic and Pelagian idealism that plagues much postconciliar catechesis. But more than a rote doctrinal response to our malaise, Bursa’s Ratzingarian articulation of a rich catechetics of the incarnate logos will benefit anyone interested in how good theology is made flesh. A must-read for anyone in the field of evangelization and catechetics.”


—Conor Sweeney, Christendom College