"A simple dialogue..."
Perhaps one of your most misleading intro's of recent times, Cas!
I thoroughly enjoyed this debate of wits by Pryce and Hopkins, as the popes sparring for ultimate supremacy in their respective grandiose minds that purport to just cause.
It's interesting in how ideals of thought twist and turn through certainty, to what will do in the end to be seen as correct enough to lead from.
Hopkins has played this role, in different guise, over the years with his air of authority in being the worldly intellectual that may appear to yield to new thought, but never really does so as he presses in the killer caveat of dismissal. Whereas Pryce once more sits in his more typical reasoned persona that quietly attempts to guide to his path of thought. One major thing they both share though, is a sense of humour in it all and this really stands out here as it's deployed without total cynicism or patronizing manner.
A welcome change to the usual ad hominem junk.