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Books by George Weigel
  | | The Irony of Modern Catholic History How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform by George Weigel Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2019 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-09433-2, ISBN: 0-465-09433-3 "A powerful new interpretation of Catholicism's dramatic encounter with modernity, by one of America's leading intellectualsThroughout much of the nineteenth century, both secular and Catholic leaders assumed that the Church and the modern world were locked in a battle to the death. The triumph of modernity would not only finish the Church as a consequential player in world history; it would also lead to the death of religious conviction ..." |
 | | Witness to Hope The Biography of Pope John Paul II (Paperback) by George Weigel Paperback, Published 2020 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-06-299601-5, ISBN: 0-06-299601-0 |
 | | City of Saints A Pilgrimage to John Paul II's Kraków by George Weigel, Carrie Gress, Stephen Weigel Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2015 by Image ISBN-13: 978-0-553-41890-3, ISBN: 0-553-41890-4 "“Karol Wojtyła, Pope John Paul II, was a man whose life was the expression of a richly textured and multidimensional soul. The many layers of that soul took on their first, mature form in Kraków.” – George Weigel In this beautifully illustrated spiritual travelogue, New York Times bestselling author George Weigel leads readers through the historic streets of Kraków, Poland, introducing one of the world’s great cities through the life of ..." |
 | | Letters to a Young Catholic(2nd Edition) by George Weigel Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2015 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-02832-0, ISBN: 0-465-02832-2 ""An engaging, lucid, and informative introduction to the teachings and traditions of Catholicism." --Wall Street JournalIn this remarkable exploration of the Catholic world, prominent Catholic author and papal biographer George Weigel offers a luminous collection of letters to young Catholics, not-so-young Catholics, and curious souls who wonder what it means to be Catholic today. Weigel takes readers on an epistolary tour of Catholic l ..." |
 | | The Cube And the Cathedral(Updated) Europe, America, And Politics Without God by George Weigel, Basic Books Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 2006 by Basic Books Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-465-09268-0, ISBN: 0-465-09268-3 "Why do Europeans and Americans see the world so differently? Why do Europeans and Americans have such different understandings of democracy in the twenty-first century? Why is Europe dying, demographically? In "The Cube and the Cathedral," George Weigel offers a penetrating critique of "Europe's problem" and draws out its lessons for the rest of the democratic world. Contrasting the civilization that produced the starkly modernist "cube ..." |
 | | Churches in Rome(1st Edition) A complete guide to the most important churches in Rome by George Weigel, Elizabeth Lev, Stephen Weigel Hardcover, 464 Pages, Published 2013 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-02769-9, ISBN: 0-465-02769-5 "A preeminent scholar of Catholicism transports readers to Rome for the traditional station churches pilgrimage, offering a vivid and informative guide to the Eternal City and the Lenten season.The annual Lenten pilgrimage to dozens of Rome's most striking churches is a sacred tradition dating back almost two millennia, to the earliest days of Christianity. Along this historic spiritual pathway, today's pilgrims confront the mysteries of ..." |
 | | The Next Pope The Office of Peter and a Church in Mission (Hardback) by George Weigel Hardcover, 141 Pages, Published 2020 by Ignatius Press ISBN-13: 978-1-62164-433-0, ISBN: 1-62164-433-2 "Taking lessons from the pontificates of John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis, George Weigel proposes what the Catholic leaders of the future, especially the next pope, must do to remain faithful to the Holy Spirit’s summons to renewed ..." |
 | | To Sanctify the World The Vital Legacy of Vatican II (Hardback) by George Weigel Hardcover, Published 2022 by Basic Books, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-465-09431-8, ISBN: 0-465-09431-7 |
 | | Lessons in Hope(1st Edition) My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II by George Weigel Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2017 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-09429-5, ISBN: 0-465-09429-5 "A preeminent authority on the Catholic Church and papal biographer describes what he learned from chronicling the life of Pope John Paul IIIn Lessons in Hope, George Weigel tells the story of his unique friendship with St. John Paul II. As Weigel learns the pope "from inside," he also offers a firsthand account of the tumult of post-Vatican II Catholicism and the Cold War's endgame, introducing readers to the heroes who brought down Eur ..." |
 | | Truth of Catholicism by George Weigel Paperback, 206 Pages, Published 2002 by Gracewing Import ISBN-13: 978-0-85244-572-3, ISBN: 0-85244-572-5 "The Catholic Church may be the most controversial institution in the world. Whether the question is the uniqueness of Jesus Christ, the relationship of Catholicism to other religious communities, the meaning of freedom, the use and abuse of sex, the dignity of human life from conception until natural death, or the role of women, the Catholic Church has taken challenging positions that some find inexplicable, even cruel.In The Truth of C ..." |
 | | Charles G. Finney and the Spirit of American Evangelicalism (Library of Religious Biography Series) by Robert Royal, George Weigel, Char Hambrick Stowe Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1996 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. ISBN-13: 978-0-8028-0129-6, ISBN: 0-8028-0129-3 "Charles Grandison Finney was the foremost evangelist in the pre-Civil War United States. His revivals in the cities along the Erie Canal; his well-organized campaigns in Philadelphia, New York City, Boston, and the British Isles; his prominent pastorate at New York's Broadway Tabernacle; and his teaching career at Oberlin College exemplify the evangelical spirit that swept the country following the Second Great Awakening. This lively bi ..." |
 | | The Fragility of Order(Updated) Catholic Reflections on Turbulent Times by George Weigel Hardcover, 223 Pages, Published 2018 by Ignatius Press ISBN-13: 978-1-62164-237-4, ISBN: 1-62164-237-2 "George Weigel is one of America's most prominent public intellectuals, a New York Times-bestselling author, the biographer of Pope St. John Paul II, and Senior Vatican Analyst for NBC News. In this collection of essays, he brings thirty five years of experience in Washington and Rome to bear on some of the most contested issues of contemporary history and world politics. He analyzes the current civic distress of the United States from a ..." |
 | | Evangelical Catholicism(Reprint) Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church by George Weigel Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2014 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-07567-6, ISBN: 0-465-07567-3 "[Read by David Cochran Heath] George Weigel, one of the world's foremost authorities on the Catholic Church, presents a bold challenge to Catholics everywhere. The Catholic Church is on the threshold of a bold new era in its two-thousand year history. As the curtain comes down on the Church defined by the sixteenth-century counterreformation, the curtain is rising on the Evangelical Catholicism of the third millennium: a way of being Ca ..." |
 | | The End and the Beginning Pope John Paul II--The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy by George Weigel Paperback, 608 Pages, Published 2011 by Image ISBN-13: 978-0-385-52480-3, ISBN: 0-385-52480-3 "“As March gave way to April in the spring of 2005 and the world kept vigil outside the apostolic palace in Rome, the pontificate of Pope John Paul II, then drawing to a poignant end, was already being described as one of the most consequential in two millennia of Christian history.” With these words, world-renowned author and NBC Vatican analyst George Weigel begins his long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller Witness to Hope ..." |
 | | The End and the Beginning(1st Edition) Pope John Paul II -- The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy by George Weigel Hardcover, 590 Pages, Published 2010 by Doubleday ISBN-13: 978-0-385-52479-7, ISBN: 0-385-52479-X "“As March gave way to April in the spring of 2005 and the world kept vigil outside the apostolic palace in Rome, the pontificate of Pope John Paul II, then drawing to a poignant end, was already being described as one of the most consequential in two millennia of Christian history.” With these words, world-renowned author and NBC Vatican analyst George Weigel begins his long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller Witness to Ho ..." |
 | | The Truth of Catholicism(Reprint) Inside the Essential Teachings and Controversies of the Church Today by George Weigel Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2002 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-06-093758-4, ISBN: 0-06-093758-0 " The Catholic Church may be the most controversial institution in the world. Whether the question is the uniqueness of Jesus Christ, the relationship of Catholicism to other religious communities, the meaning of freedom, the use and abuse of sex, the dignity of human life from conception until natural death, or the role of women, the Catholic Church has taken challenging positions that some find inexplicable, even cruel. In The Truth ..." |
 | | The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam(1st Edition) (Bampton Lectures in America) by George Weigel Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2007 by Image ISBN-13: 978-0-385-52378-3, ISBN: 0-385-52378-5 "“History must be made to march in the direction of genuine human progress; world affairs have no intrinsic momentum that necessarily results in the victory of decency. Maintaining the morale necessary to achieving progress in history requires us to live our lives, today, against a moral horizon of responsibility that is wider and deeper than the quest for personal satisfactions. The future of our civilization does not rest merely on the ..." |
 | | God's Choice(1st Edition) Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church by George Weigel Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2005 by Harper ISBN-13: 978-0-06-621331-6, ISBN: 0-06-621331-2 "George Weigel's bestselling biography of Pope John Paul II, "Witness to Hope," set the standard by which all portraits of the modern papacy are now measured. With "God's Choice," he gives us an extraordinary chronicle of the rise of Pope Benedict XVI as well as an unflinching view of the Catholic Church at the dawn of a new era. When John Paul II lapsed into illness for the last time, people flocked from all over the world to pray outsi ..." |
 | | Witness to Hope(Updated) The Biography of Pope John Paul II by George Weigel Paperback, 1,056 Pages, Published 2005 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-06-073203-5, ISBN: 0-06-073203-2 "Witness To Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II by George Weigel is as comprehensive a biography of its subject as can be hoped for while the Pope still lives. Weigel, a journalist who came to the Pope's attention after the publication of his book, The Final Revolution: The Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism, wrote Witness To Hope with his subject's encouragement and assistance. Weigel had unprecedented access to ..." |
 | | The Cube and the Cathedral Europe, America, and Politics Without God by George Weigel Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2005 by Basic Books International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-465-09266-6, ISBN: 0-465-09266-7 "Why do Europeans and Americans see the world so differently? Why do Europeans and Americans have such different understandings of democracy and its discontents in the twenty-first century? Contrasting the civilization that produced the starkly modernist cube” of the Great Arch of La Défense in Paris with the civilization that produced the cathedral” of Notre-Dame, George Weigel argues that Europe's embrace of a narrow secularism has l ..." |
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