According to card. Ruini, the cultural project received from Verona "a more specific horizon: after the emergence of the anthropological question, the big theme of the truth, beauty and ‘liveability’ of Christianity, to be thought of, experienced and launched in today’s and tomorrow’s conditions, especially in connection with reason and the ethical codes of the neo-Enlightenment West, which tries to universalise its secularism". This is "the big goal of the Christian testimony and mission in Benedict XVI’s papacy". Then, with reference to the Pope’s speech in Regensburg and a recent article by the philosopher Habermas that criticised the position taken by the Holy Father on that occasion, because, in his opinion, "it would have given a surprisingly anti-modern turn to the debate on the Hellenisation or de-Hellenisation of Christianity", card. Ruini explained a few points: "One can and must specify, first and foremost, that in God lógos and agápe, reason-word and love, are the same thing", but the Pope "did not just want to say that". "As a matter of fact, the God of the Bible dramatically surpasses what the philosophers had thought of Him", "it is not a reality that is inaccessible to us", who "it would be pointless to invoke in our prayers, as the philosophers believed", but, quite the opposite, "the Biblical God loves man and this is why it enters our history".
