Footbridge towards the other /
"By becoming Pope, the philosopher Karol Wojtyla brought a new perspective on the human person to the central stage not only of Catholic thought but of contemporary culture. While his philosophical approach builds on the traditional Thomist understanding of what it is to be human, it involves s...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
T & T Clark,
c2003.
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| Summary: | "By becoming Pope, the philosopher Karol Wojtyla brought a new perspective on the human person to the central stage not only of Catholic thought but of contemporary culture. While his philosophical approach builds on the traditional Thomist understanding of what it is to be human, it involves several profoundly new dimensions ... The issue that the author finds at the heart of the Pope's thinking is not the abstract question of how to define the human person, but the Gospel and existential question, 'Who is my neighbour?' In answering this, Wojtyla provides a footbridge into the very heart of Christian experience, which is also the heart of contemporary secular experience--the meaning of love and how that can be lived in work, in the economy, in art and in politics"--p. [4] of cover. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 176 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-169) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0567089312 0567089320 (pbk.) |