Ratzinger Prize: conversation with philosopher Rémi Brague...

(Vatican Radio) French philospher Professor Rémi Brague, was awarded the 2012 Ratzinger Prize by Pope Benedict XVI who praised him as: :"... a great scholar of philosophy of religions, in a special way that of the Jewish and Islamic in the course of the Middle Ages."...

Earlier the Pope had spoken of Professor Brague and another winner of this prize
Jesuit Father Brian Edward Daley of Notre Dame University as :... "exemplary for the transmission of knowledge that unites science and wisdom, scientific rigor and passion for man"...

Veronica Scarisbrick sat down with Professor Brague in our studios here prior to his receiving his prize and began by asking him why he thought he'd received this prize for theology.

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