The recipients of this year’s Ratzinger Prize are English Biblical scholar Richard A. Burridge, dean of King’s College, London and minister in the Anglican Communion—the first non-Catholic to receive the award—and the German lay theologian Christian Schaller, professor of Dogmatic Theology and deputy director of the Pope Benedict XVI Institute of Regensburg, Germany.
Burridge is an eminent figure in the field of Biblical studies and has made a great contribution in particular in the decisive area of the historical and theological recognition of the Gospels’ inseparable connection to Jesus of Nazareth. Schaller is receiving the award not only for his contribution to theological studies but also in recognition of the role he is carrying out in the publication of Joseph Ratzinger’s complete works.