Truth and Tolerance

Truth and Tolerance

File:Truth and Tolerance.jpg Book cover
Author	Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
Original title	Glaube – Wahrheit – Toleranz: Das Christentum und die Weltreligionen
Publisher	Ignatius Press
Publication date	2004
Pages	280
ISBN	978-1-58617-035-6

Truth and Tolerance (German: Glaube – Wahrheit – Toleranz: Das Christentum und die Weltreligionen ) is a book written by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI).

The book discusses faith, religion, culture, freedom, and truth, with special emphasis on the Christian religion and how it relates to these and if it can continue to make an absolute claim as the true religion.

In the preface, he states that "beyond all particular questions, the real problem lies in the question about truth." He first tries to understand what culture is and how cultures relate to one another. Then he tries to understand man, what he is, how he can become himself. Then in the end he deals with the question on whether man is made for the truth and in what way he can put the question of truth.

Reviews

• Review by Sarah Donahue for Acton Institute
• Review by Ignatius Insight
• Review by Cathy Duff
• Review by Philip Griffiths in First Things
• Is It Arrogant to Say Christ Is the Only Savior? Asks Cardinal Ratzinger (broken link)