20 Years Since Regensburg: Benedict XVI's Speech That Sparked a Storm and Raised Questions About Faith and Reason
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Exactly 20 years ago, a quote from Pope Benedict XVI at the University of Regensburg sparked violent protests in the Islamic world, death threats and a serious diplomatic crisis. What seemed like a historical mistake ended up driving an unexpected dialogue between Catholics and Muslims that is still open.
Twenty years ago, Benedict XVI delivered one of the most important and controversial speeches of his pontificate at the University of Regensburg. A quote about Muhammad and violence sparked an international outcry, obscuring the lecture's main theme: the relationship between faith and reason and the consequences of their separation, the infovaticana portal notes. On September 12, 2006, Joseph Ratzinger returned to the university, where... Articl…
The news 20 years of Regensburg: Benedict XVI’s speech that shook Islam was first published in Last Minute Religious News New Life On September 12, 2006, Benedict XVI returned for a few hours to be a professor. He did so at the University of Regensburg, during a trip to his native Germany, with an academic discourse that would end up becoming one of the most controversial and, at the same time, most decisive moments of his pontificate. Follow u…
This Saturday, September 12, marks twenty years of the speech delivered by Benedict XVI at the University of Regensburg, in Germany, one of the most discussed interventions of his pontificate. The international controversy was concentrated in a harsh medieval quotation about Muhammad and violence, but the argument developed by Joseph Ratzinger was considerably [...]
It was about faith and reason, but with his "Regensburger speech" the then Pope Benedict XVI attracted the wrath of many Muslims in 2006. The theologian Dirk Ansorge sees today in the speech an important impulse for more dialogue.
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