{"id":4261,"date":"2006-12-23T22:21:24","date_gmt":"2006-12-23T22:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4261"},"modified":"2025-09-30T02:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:20:17","slug":"john_paul_iis_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4261","title":{"rendered":"John Paul II’s biographer on five books for understanding Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is an interesting list from George Weigel, a Catholic theologian and biographer of John Paul. Only two of the books are by Catholics. <\/p>\n

Worth Saving<\/strong> OpinionJournal – Five Best<\/a><\/p>\n

The only thing I’ve read of the five is a few brief sections from Dante’s "Divine Comedy." Probably back in high school. However Jaroslav Pelikan and N.T. Wright are well-known scholars (I should read the recommended book of Wright’s). <\/p>\n

in fact, I just looked up Wright’s book on amazon – here’s some info and reviews:Amazon.com: The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is: Books: N. T. Wright<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is an interesting list from George Weigel, a Catholic theologian and biographer of John Paul. Only two of the books are by Catholics. Worth Saving OpinionJournal – Five Best The only thing I’ve read of the five is a few brief sections from Dante’s "Divine Comedy." Probably back in high school. However Jaroslav Pelikan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9510,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261\/revisions\/9510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}