-This book is... my personal search 'for the face of the Lord.'- --Benedict XVI
In this bold, momentous work, the pope--in his first book written as Benedict XVI--seeks to salvage the person of Jesus from recent -popular- depictions and to restore Jesus' true identity as discovered in the Gospels. Through his brilliance as a theologian and his personal conviction as a believer, the pope shares a rich, compelling, flesh-and-blood portrait of Jesus and incites us to encounter, face-to-face, the central figure of the Christian faith.
From Jesus of Nazareth... -the great question...

Pope Benedict's third encyclical applies the themes of his first two encyclicals--God Is Love and Saved in Hope--to the world's major social issues. He goes on to provide sound moral principles that address social and economic problems effecting people around the world.

From Clement of Rome to today, the project of understanding the faith has engaged and impelled some of the Wests greatest minds. Here Pope Benedict XVI accessibly and sympathetically reflects on the lives and works of Christianitys chief theologians, teachers, ascetics and mystics up to the end of the Middle Ages.