Books on John Paul II

Biographies
Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II, by George Weigel.

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Academic Studies of the Thought of John Paul II
Karol Wojtyla: The Thought of the Man Who Became Pope John Paul II
by Rocco Buttiglione, Paolo Guietti (Translator), Francesco Murphy (Translator).
September, 1997.

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    Review, by William A. Frank. University if Dallas. Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Newsletter Vol. 21, No. 3. Summer 1998. pp. 45-46. [.pdf format].
At the Center of the Human Drama: The Philosophical Anthropology of Karol Wojtyla/Pope John Paul II
by Kenneth L. Schmitz
Catholic University of America Press (October 1, 1993).

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The Splendor of Faith : The Theological Vision of Pope John Paul II
by Avery Cardinal Dulles.
Revised and Updated. Herder & Herder (September, 2003).

A philosopher and theologian, as well as priest, and finally Pope, John Paul II has written extensivley on a wide variety of subjects. With his considerable theological expertise and acumen, Avery Dulles has undertaken the demanding task of synthesizing the Pope's theological insights on the complete range of topics from the Trinity and Christology to the economic and social order.

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    Review by Kevin E. Schmiesing. Project Coordinator, Center for Economic Personalism. Markets & Morality Volume 3, Number 1. Spring 2000.
Challenging the Modern World: Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II and the Development of Catholic Social Teaching
by Dr. Samuel Gregg
Lexington Books (January 2003).

Samuel Gregg provides an insightful, cogent, and thorough analysis of the issues surrounding developments in Catholic social teaching during the pontificate of John Paul II. He compares the treatment in John Paul's social encyclicals of three topics-industrial relations, capitalism, and the relations between developed and developing countries-with the handling of these matters in the social teachings of the Second Vatican Council and Paul VI. Through the application of a comparative exegetical approach to the relevant texts, it becomes apparent that John Paul's development of the teaching derives from several sources. Within this analysis, Gregg considers a more specific and less widely examined issue: the extent to which the development in Catholic social thought has been influenced by the writings of Karol Wojtyla before he became pope in 1978. In addition to revealing an openness to certain modern philosophical insights and expressing a range of views about the modern world, these writings elaborate a distinctive anthropology of man as the conscious subject of moral acts. -- Publisher

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