Great Christian Thinkers

<p>In brief portraits <b>Pope Benedict XVI</b> offers engaging perceptive and edifying sketches of some of the great thinkers and writers of Christianity. Pope Benedict discusses notable theologians from East and West but also many figures whose primary witness was as ascetics poets mystics and missionaries. His pieces are not only illuminating historical sketches but also often surprisingly personal reflective meditations on the perennial changes of theology spirituality devotion and corporate religious lifein short of thinking about and wrestling daily with the mysteries that envelop all our lives and struggles.</p><p>Always with an eye to their deepest religious convictions and struggles the Holy Father presents these great thinkers' importance for the church and for Christian life today.</p><p><i>Great Christian Thinkers</i> is an openminded look at the tradition and is written for Catholics and Protestants alike. </p>