Above: Christ Before the High Priest by Gerard van Honthorst (1617). Among the epochal books I have reread countless times over the past twenty years, a special place is occupied by Joseph Ratzinger’s famous post-doctoral dissertation, Die Geschichtstheologie des heiligen Bonaventura (1959). Translated into English in 1971 under the title The Theology of History in Saint Bonaventure…
