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Dei Verbum

sum, the purpose of the Catechism was to “propose” the faith by instructing believers about the content of divine revelation as handed on in the Church under the guidance of the Holy Spirit through Scripture and Tradition, because the fundamental content of Catholic faith was in danger of being neglected, obscured, and forgotten.

Ratzinger, presumably because he had always lived in a strongly Catholic culture. What he learned from von Balthasar, he says, was that “[f]aith is not maintained automatically. It is not a ‘finished business’ that we can simply take for granted. The life of faith has to be constantly renewed.”4[1]

4 Ibid.

[1]Matthew Levering, An Introduction to Vatican II as an Ongoing Theological Event (ed. Chad C. Pecknold and Thomas Joseph White; Sacra Doctrina Series; Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2017), 21.

Matthew Levering, An Introduction to Vatican II as an Ongoing Theological Event (ed. Chad C. Pecknold and Thomas Joseph White; Sacra Doctrina Series; Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2017), 21.