Faith, Reason and the University: Memories and Reflections

The lecture Benedict XVI gave at the University of Regensburg, where he had taught, on 12 September 2006, on the relation of faith and reason and the modern tendency to exclude the question of God from reason. It drew international controversy for quoting the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaiologos's criticism of Islam, words the pope himself called brusque. It was published as a book with commentaries by Gesine Schwan, Adel Theodor Khoury and Karl Lehmann: Glaube und Vernunft: Die Regensburger Vorlesung (Herder, 2006). The full English text is free on vatican.va.