Memory and Identity
Memory and Identity: Personal Reflections

Memory and Identity: Personal Reflections


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Reflecting on the most challenging issues and events of his turbulent times, Pope John Paul II reveals his personal thoughts in a truly historic document. The world's greatest communicator offers a moving insight into his intellectual and spiritual journey and pastoral experience. Each chapter suggests the answer to a question which either exercised his mind or which he provoked in discussion with laymen and priests. Using the encounters at his summer residence of Castel Gandolfo where conversations took place with leading intellectuals - philosophers as well as theologians - Pope John Paul II addresses in his book many of the questions which arose from these discussions. Here he leaves for posterity an intellectual and spiritual testament in an attempt to seek the answer to defining problems that vex our lives. The book ends with the Pope's first ever published comments on the assassination attempt upon his life in 1981. The conversational tone and form of this book indicates to the reader that this is not an academic thesis, more of a friendly talk. Each chapter is, as it were, the answer to a question which many of us carry in our heads or hearts.

About the Author :
Born Karol Wojtyla in 1920, His Holiness Pope John Paul II was ordained a priest in 1947. He was created a cardinal in 1967 and became Pope on 16th October 1978.

Review :
I like my Popes intellectual. I like them citing Aristotle, Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Sartre and Dostoevsky.... It is gratifying, in this volume of conversations with Pope John Paul II to be treated to philosophical cogitation... John Paul II has long reflected upon such big ideas as freedom and responsibility, love and redemption, totalitarianism, capitalism and the nature of evil.... His account of surviving the assassin's bullet is both touching and human. - NEW STATESMAN - Mary Kenny The 11 pages in Memory and Identity which deal with the assassination attempt are the most compelling in the book... Every detail is welcome. - DAILY TELEGRAPH - Christopher Howse this could very well be his last will and testament. - SUNDAY TIMES - Peter Stanford what this short memoir will do is establish a dialogue with scholars long after he is dead. - THE OBSERVER Whether this book is the Holy Father's valedictory is in surer hands than ours; his mind and his passion for truth are demonstrably undimmed. This book, in fact, may well serve as much as an introduction to his thought and teaching as a coda to it. For his spiritual vision, as well as all his other startling qualities, he is by anyone's standards the outstanding figure of our age. - CATHOLIC HERALD Philosophical and theological ideas feature but the style is more that of a reflective sermon. - THE SCOTSMAN


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780297850755
  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • Publisher Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Height: 222 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Sub Title: Personal Reflections
  • Width: 148 mm
  • ISBN-10: 029785075X
  • Publisher Date: 25 Feb 2005
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 375 gr


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