Publisher's Synopsis
One is a cardinal, and a respected New Testament scholar; the other is the world-famous author of The Name of the Rose, a scholar, philosopher, and self-declared secularist.In this intellectually stimulating dialogue, often adversarial but always amicable, these two great men, who stand on opposite sides of the church door, discuss the controversies of our day, including: ethics, women in the church, abortion and the apocalypse.