Introduction to Christianity Introduction to Christianity Introduction to Christianity () is a 1968 book written by Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI). Considered one of his most important and widely read books, it presents a "narrative Christology" that demonstrates the place for faith is in the Church. The book offers a "remarkable elucidation of the Apostle's Creed" and gives an "excellent, modern interpretation of the foundations of Christianity". Originally published in German in 1968 under the title, "Einführung in das Christentum", Ratzinger restates the Apostles' Creed and the meaning of this foundational text in language that has a greater contemporary resonance than the
Christian Schaller Christian Schaller Christian Schaller is a Roman Catholic theologian from Munich, Germany. In June 2013, he was co-recipient, with Richard A. Burridge, of the Ratzinger Prize. Christian Schaller was born in Munich, Bavaria, in 1967. He studied at the faculty of theology of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Already during his "Diplomarbeit" (Licence thesis), he dealt with one aspect of the theology of Joseph Ratzinger, soon to be Benedict XVI:"The Eucharistic Ecclesiology in the context of the sacramentality of the Church" was the title of the paper presented by Prof. Dr. Gerhard Ludwig Müller. From 1997 to 2000, he