After Benedict became Pope I purchased a book wherein he had written a mini-thesis for each day of the year. I found the work to be as confusing as what we are discussing here and I am far from uneducated.
His writings sound humanistic, or like the thoughts of a modernist which the Church has had and still suffers from entirely too much of.
I just finished Ratzinger's Jesus of Nazareth and found it one of the best books on Jesus I've read. His style seems much simpler and clearer than that of --- for instance--- John Paul II, which always gave me the impression of having been written in Polish and then translated successively into Latin, then French, then gobbledy-English (like that old "telephone" game we played as kids.)