The Mind of Pope Francis: Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s Intellectual Journey

Acknowledged authors Borghesi, Massimo wrote The Mind of Pope Francis: Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s Intellectual Journey comprising 344 pages back in 2018. Textbook and eTextbook are published under ISBN 0814687903 and 9780814687901. Since then The Mind of Pope Francis: Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s Intellectual Journey textbook was available to sell back to BooksRun online for the top buyback price of $ 3.98 or rent at the marketplace.

A commonly held impression is that Pope Francis is a compassionate shepherd and determined leader but that he lacks the intellectual depth of his recent predecessors. Massimo Borghesi’s The Mind of Pope Francis: Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s Intellectual Journey dismantles that image.Borghesi recounts and analyzes, for the first time, Bergoglio’s intellectual formation, exploring the philosophical, theological, and spiritual principles that support the profound vision at the heart of this pope’s teaching and ministry. Central to that vision is the church as a coincidentia oppositorum, holding together what might seem to be opposing and irreconcilable realities. Among his guiding lights have been the Jesuit saints, Ignatius and Peter Faber; philosophers Gaston Fessard, Romano Guardini, and Alberto Methol Ferrer; and theologians Henri de Lubac and Hans Urs von Balthasar.Recognizing how these various strands have come together to shape the mind and heart of Jorge Mario Bergoglio offers essential insights into who he is and the way he is leading the church. Notably, this groundbreaking book is informed by four interviews provided to the author, via audio recordings, by the pope himself on his own intellectual formation, major portions of which are published here for the first time.