Crossing the Threshold of Hope

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Hardcover. First American Edition. Crossing the Threshold of Hope. Very slight foxing to edge. Previous owners name and address sticker to inside cover. Mark to front cover of D/J. Slight wear to top and bottom edge of spine and corners of D/J. Translated from the Italian by Jenny McPhee and Martha McPhee. Sixteen years into his papacy, and on the eve of the millennium, Pope John Paul II brings to an accessible level the great theological concerns of our lives. He goes to the heart of his personal beliefs and speaks with passion about the existence of God; about the dignity of man; about pain, suffering, and evil; about eternal life and the meaning of salvation; about hope; about the reelaship of Christianity to other faiths and that of Catholicism to other branches of the Christian faith.With the humility and generosity of spirit for which he is known, John Paul II speaks directly and forthrightly to all people. His message: 'Be not afraid'. 247 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Very Good. Cloth. 1st American Edition. 1994.