More on Jesus of Nazareth and CLT

This follows my earlier posts on the questions raised by Joseph Ratzinger's book, Jesus of Nazareth, for the CLT project. As in my earlier posts, the question for me (us?) is what is my (our) response to the text.

p.118 - The "communion of will with God given by Jesus ... frees men and nations to discover what aspects of political and social order accord iwth this communion of will and so to work out their own juridical arrangements. ... The concrete political and social order is released from the directly sacred realm, from theocratic legislation, and is transferred to the freedom of man, whom Jesus has established in God's will and taught thereby to see the right and the good." 

On p. 119, he identifies the current social and political problem - "In our day, of course, freedom has been totally wrenched away from any godly perspective or from communion with Jesus.  Freedom for universality and so for the legitimate secularity of the state has been transformed into an absolute secularism, for which forgetfulness of God and exclusive concern with success seem to have become guiding principles."  In response, he proposes that "for the believing Christian ... the search for God's will in communion with Jesus is above all a signpost for his reason, without which it is always in danger of being dazzled and blinded."

More later...