E. Michael Jones: The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit - 2007
The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit
Introduction
On September 12, 2006, Joseph Ratzinger made a triumphal return to his native Bavaria. Having chosen the name of Benedict XVI when he was elected pope, His Holiness returned not only to Germany but to the German university of Regensburg to express his gratitude for the time he spent there as a professor and to renew the Church’s commitment to the university. But more than that, Pope Benedict wanted to re-affirm the Church’s position on the relationship between faith and reason. In order to do that he had to refer to a tradition where that relationship has not been so complementary, a tradition which stands outside of Europe, namely, Islam.