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Witness Through Encounter: The Diplomacy of Benedict XVI

Witness Through Encounter: The Diplomacy of Benedict XVI

O'Connor, Bernard J.

Hardcover

CatholicismInternational Relations

ISBN10: 1587319160
ISBN13: 9781587319167
Publisher: St Augustines Pr Inc
Published: Jan 14 2022
Pages: 444
Weight: 1.72
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Appealing to dialogue is often just a safe way of referring to something negative, or at best blandly neutral: the avoidance of conflict, the denial of similarity, not stirring deep-seated disagreement, etc. When Bernard o'Connor says pope Benedict XVI facilitated dialogue, however, he means something quite positive, very much tangible and certainly transformative. In providing an account of the pope's interactions with various groups of the international community, O'Connor attempts to convey Benedict XVI's diplomacy as encounter, where even in the sphere of international relations exhortations to dialogue are invitations to see more clearly and be moved as much as move.

To dialogue is to embrace, revise perception such that our approaches to the great questions of our day are not simply shared but correct. As O'Connor writes, Pope Benedict attempts to promote the outlook that a renewed emphasis upon objective, critical and structured philosophical reasoning positions practice, diplomatic and otherwise, to regain its lost foundation and framework. the quest for integrity, if nothing else, should motivate our fidelity to academic pursuit, to intellectual investigation, and to rigorous interdisciplinary inquiry. so influenced, practice will then reject what is arbitrary and be guided by what is time-tested and enduring.

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