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The Legacy of John Paul II: An Evangelical Assessment. Edited by Tim Perry. Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP Academic. 327 pp. $25.00 (paper).
Pope John Paul II is rightly remembered as a peerless apologist for Christian values, a tireless critic of secular mass culture, und a fearless witness to the dignity of the human person. His tendency to integrate both innovation and tradition into a muscular Roman Catholicism gave his extraordinary pontificate a highly paradoxical character. One of the most surprising features of the John Paul phenomenon was the degree to which it at traeteci some? of the finest minds in the international evangelicid community.
This book captures the range and intensity of the evangelical response to "the most ? i-uiuenically mim led and indeed ex augelical-frieindly pope since the Reformation" (p. 12). Though sometimes mystified by his idiosyucratic blend of Thomism....