INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "A remarkable book. Weigel's biography is likely to remain the standard one-volume reference on John Paul II for many years to come." -- Pittsburg Post-Gazette ? "Fascinating. . . sheds light on the history of the twentieth century for everyone." -- New York Times Book Review The definitive biography of Pope John Paul II that explores how influential he was on the world stage and in some of the most historic events of the twentieth century that can still be felt today Witness to ...
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "A remarkable book. Weigel's biography is likely to remain the standard one-volume reference on John Paul II for many years to come." -- Pittsburg Post-Gazette ? "Fascinating. . . sheds light on the history of the twentieth century for everyone." -- New York Times Book Review The definitive biography of Pope John Paul II that explores how influential he was on the world stage and in some of the most historic events of the twentieth century that can still be felt today Witness to Hope is the authoritative biography of one of the singular figures--some might argue the singular figure--of our time. With unprecedented cooperation from John Paul II and the people who knew and worked with him throughout his life, George Weigel offers a groundbreaking portrait of the Pope as a man, a thinker, and a leader whose religious convictions defined a new approach to world politics--and changed the course of history. As even his critics concede, John Paul II occupied a unique place on the world stage and put down intellectual markers that no one could ignore or avoid as humanity entered a new millennium fraught with possibility and danger. The Pope was a man of prodigious energy who played a crucial, yet insufficiently explored, role in some of the most momentous events of our time, including the collapse of European communism, the quest for peace in the Middle East, and the democratic transformation of Latin America. With an updated preface, this edition of Witness to Hope explains how this "man from a far country" did all of that, and much more--and what both his accomplishments and the unfinished business of his pontificate mean for the future of the Church and the world.
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Perhaps one of the most well written spiritual autobiographies of our time. This book is thoroughly researched, well written and delivers it's content with a style that engages the reader. The work reveals many things unknown about the multi-faceted life and works of this great pope, now called "John Paul the Great": his philosophical work (he was a first-rate philosophical thinker and writer), his deep regard for humanity and the human condition, his love and theology of the figure of Mary, and his concern for the church and the direction of Catholic thought in the twentieth century. Unlike the rather silly and amaturish attempt at biography by the jounalist Woodward, this author knows the Catholic territory very well and it shows in his knowlegable prose, which in comparison, the Woodward book reads like a comic book. Highly recommended and very readable.
