Augustinian vs. Thomist formations

EWTN had a very good program in Rome last night with Raymond Arroyo and Fr. Richard John Neuhaus. As a part of the program they interviewed Avery Cardinal Dulles. To get a glimpse of this interview refer to Fr. Neuhaus' Rome Diary. An excerpt of his "diary" is below.

Avery Cardinal Dulles summarized the witness of John Paul in the phrase "prophetic humanism." The Ratzinger of the past gave--and the Benedict of the future, will, I expect, continue to give--voice to a more explicit and insistent Christocentric humanism. This is not to say that John Paul was not Christocentric. There were few passages from the Council that he quoted more often than declaration from Gaudium et Spes that Jesus Christ is not only the revelation of God to man but the revelation of man to himself. The suggested contrast between John Paul and Benedict is not a disagreement, but Ratzinger's accent has been more explicitly on the crucified Christ and the necessarily cruciform experience of the Church through time... It has been suggested that the different accents may reflect the fact that Ratzinger is more Augustinian in his theology while John Paul was more of a Thomist.

Pope Benedict XVI did do his doctrorate dissertation on Augustine. Here is a Communio article by Pope B16 on Augustine.