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Benedict XVI stressed the importance of the work of German theologian Erik Peterson, who offered contributions in dogmatics, exegesis, liturgy, and the history of early Christianity. The Pope spoke this morning to participants at the International Symposium on Erik Peterson, a convert to Catholicism from Protestantism, which is now in progress at the Teutonic College. His most important writings focus on the dialectical tension between theology and the modern human sciences. The conference, based on studies of Peterson, asserts that the characteristic Christian notion that we are foreigners in the world rejuvenates the Church and makes it able to meet the challenges of the modern world, first of all, ...

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