Cornwell in The Pontiff in Winter:
Wojtyla struggled with [German philosopher Max] Scheler texts, struggled with his own philosophical scruples, and wrestled with his conscience - for was not Thomas Aquinas, the Angelic Doctor, by decree of Pope Leo XIII, the foundational, definitive, and magisterial guide to Catholic thought? He wavered, and set himself the task of combining the insights of Aquinas with those of Scheler. Surely, the circuitous, less disciplined thoughts of Scheler would benefit from alignment with the highly logical, time-honored foundations of Thomas Aquinas. The conflict between two such contrasting philosophical force fields gave impetus to a current of contradiction that would run through Wojtyla's thinking for the rest of his life...Wojtyla's apologists down the years would claim that he redressed and enlivened the inflexibility and austerity of scholasticism.
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