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John Paul II's Legacy

Assessing His Legacy

Terrence W. Tilley | Stanley Hauerwas | Richard P. McBrien | Nancy A. Dallavalle | Jim Forest | Irving Greenberg

The death of John Paul II, and the outpouring of affection and admiration it has brought forth from every corner of the globe, has reminded all of us what a remarkable individual he was and what a singular institution the papacy is. Commonweal asked six commentators, representing four faith traditions, to make a preliminary assessment of the significance of the late pope†(...)


 

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Terrence W. Tilley is chair of the Theology Department at Fordham University.

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Stanley Hauerwas is professor of theology at Duke Divinity School.

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Rev. Richard P. McBrien, the Crowley-O’Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, is the author of Catholicism and The Church: The Evolution of Catholicism, both published by HarperOne.

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Nancy A. Dallavalle is chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut.

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Jim Forest heads the Orthodox Peace Fellowship from his home in Alkmaar, the Netherlands. His most recent book is The Wormwood File: E-Mail from Hell (Orbis).

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Rabbi Irving Greenberg is president of Jewish Life Network/Steinhardt Foundation and the author of For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter Between Judaism and Christianity.

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