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The Priceless Gift: A Primer of the Theology of Consecrated Life
This book is an initiative of the Polish Bishops' Commission for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. The author follows the path of the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Vita Consecrata and presents consecrated life like a mosaic.In short articles under specific keywords, he elucidates the most important elements. These articles are assembled in the key of contemporary ecclesiology, using the Church's threefold identity as mystery, community and mission.
A Gate to Heaven
Etienne Nodet proposes that Qumran functioned as a pilgrimage site for the Essenes from the 1st century BC onwards. Nodet suggests that the Essenes were scattered everywhere within Palestine in rural communities and that they used to commemorate a renewal of the early Israelites' entrance into the Promised Land, after crossing the Jordan river and celebrating Passover at Gilgal with Joshua, Moses' heir. The Essene dead were moved to be buried at Qumran in a well-organized graveyard, as the place was deemed to be a kind of gate to heaven. Nodet shows how the Jewish movement of the Essenes did not did not disappear after the war in 70 CE, rather its customs had a strong influence upon early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism. The chapters of this book examine the Essenes in the period after the war in Jerusalem, showing how this community developed and its longer term significance. This is linked to the texts of the New Testament, to the writings of Josephus and to the Qumran community's own documents, the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The Samaritans
Etienne Nodet examines the Samaritans and their religion, using Jewish and Christian sources, including rabbinic literature and the latest archaeology. Nodet tells the story of the Samaritans and their religion, showing how they were faithful to a classical form of monotheism. Nodet traces the Samaritan story from more recent to more ancient times. He begins by looking at the importance of the Samaritans in the time of Josephus and the New Testament, taking in the area formed by Galilee, Samaria, and Judea and recognizing how this corresponds approximately to Canaan at the time of Joshua, between the Jordan and the Mediterranean. He then examines the account of 2 Kings 17, which shows the Sa...
Saints et Bienheureux du Pays Basque et du Béarn
epuis la premiere evangelisation du Pays Basque et du Bearn sur le des routes romaines jusqu'au 19e siecle, quand l'Eglise a travers toute la France se releve des epreuves de la Revolution, nous comptons plus d'une vingtaine de saints, bienheureux et grands temoins du Christ dans l'Aquitaine pyreneenne. Tous ceux dont nous parlerons dans ce petit livre etaient des hommes - et une femme ! - desireux d'annoncer le Christ, engages dans l'evangelisation, des contemplatifs dans l'action ! -- Dans l'introduction, l'auteur parle de l'evolution de la "canonisation" des saints et de l'interpretation des legendes qui sont parfois les seuls temoins des premiers saints.
Le Dialogue comme Mission de la Famille Dominicaine: En mémoire de Chrys McVey
Ce livre est inspirant et tres lisible, plein de sagesse pour la vie de l'Eglise aujourd'hui. L'accent n'est pas tant sur sa personne du dominicain Chrys McVey, mais sur sa vision de la mission chretienne en dialogue pour la vie monde et la paix entre les
Il dono inestimabile: Le chiavi della teologia della vita consacrata
Seguendo il percorso indicato da san Giovanni Paolo II nell'Esortazione post-sinodale "Vita consecrata," l'autore di questo libro - un'iniziativa della Commissione per gli Istituti di Vita Consacrata e le Societa di Vita Apostolica dell'Episcopato Polacco - presenta la vita consacrata come un mosaico. In brevi articoli sotto parole-chiavi, egli chiarisce i suoi elementi piu importanti. Questi articoli sono assemblati in conformita con l'ecclesiologia contemporanea, utilizzando triplice identita della Chiesa come mistero, comunita e missione."
