Page "Crossing the Threshold of Hope" Paragraph 12

Reception of this work of John Paul II range from “ With the humility and generosity of spirit for which he is well known, John Paul speaks forthrightly to all people ” to “ the Pope emerges as the master of the flat statement, the bland certainty.

Metaphor, anecdotes, humour, imagination rarely trouble his style ; he prefers the long pedantic plod through Aristotle and Plato, St Paul, Augustine, St Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, Pascal, Kant, Hegel, Husserl and Heidegger ”