Sitting on the Cathedra of Moses:
Pope Benedict XVI’s view of Jesus as the New Moses

Throughout time there have been notable individuals who have contributed to society in some great way, and it is specifically for those contributions that they are known and remembered even unto modernity.  In the secular realm, Louis Pasteur is remembered for Pasteurization, Marie Curie for Radiation, and Immanuel Kant for his Categorical Imperative.  This is no less true for the Papacy.  When one ponders of the Modernist heresy one immediately recalls Pope Pius X and his encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis.  The issues of artificial contraception and respect for human life will forever be linked to Pope Paul VI and his encyclical letter Humanae Vitae.  The papacy of Pope John Paul II will forever be remembered for his explorations in the Theology of the Body.  The hallmark of People Benedict XVI’s papacy will inevitably be his journeys into Covenantal Theology (Pimental 16) and, more specifically, his writings on Jesus’ salvific role as the New Moses and therefore the fulfiller of the God’s Covenant with Israel.