God? -- What has become of the "history of salvation"? -- The centrality of salvation -- Why is there so much evil in the world? -- Why does God tolerate suffering? -- What does "To save" mean? -- Why so many religions? -- Buddha? -- Muhammad? -- Judaism? -- A minority by the year 2000 -- What is the "New evangelization"? -- Is there really hope in the young? -- Was God at work in the fall of communism? -- Is only Rome right? -- In search of lost unity -- Why divided? -- The Church and the Council -- A "Dialogue of salvation" -- A qualitative renewal -- The reaction of the "World" -- Does "Eternal life" exist? -- What is the use of believing? -- Human rights -- The defense of every life -- The Mother of God -- Women -- "Be not afraid" -- Crossing the threshold of hope -- Biblical index -- General index.

Sixteen years into his papacy, an on the eve of the millennium, Pope John Paul 11 brings to an accessible level the great theological concerns of our lives. He goes to the heart of his personal beliefs and speaks with passion about the existence of God; about the dignity of man; about pain, suffering, and evil; about hope; about the relationship of Christianity to other faiths and that of Catholicism to to other branches of Christianity to other faiths and that of Catholicism to other branches of the Christian faith. (From verso).