Di Jean-François Colosimo* Traduzione di Giacomo Tessaro In mezzo alle guerre tragiche che infuriano in Medio Oriente i cristiani subiscono persecuzioni insopportabili nell’indifferenza generale: una situazione difficilmente tollerabile. Siamo tutti cristiani d’Oriente. La loro causa è universale, non ...
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Di Gilles Bourquin* Traduzione di Giacomo Tessaro Negli ambienti pietisti il timor di Dio viene presentato come un valore spirituale positivo: rappresenta il rispetto, l’amore, la riserva prudente che dobbiamo osservare in quanto peccatori di fronte alla magnificenza di ...
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Jean-François Colosimo Translation Canon Tony Dickinson In the tragic wars raging across the Middle East, Christians are suffering intolerable persecution, in the face of a generalised indifference which is difficult to bear. • We are all ...
Lire la suite...The diplodocus’s femur: metonymic quotations in the Bible
Michel Barlow Translation Canon Tony Dickinson In order to understand a biblical text properly, it is important to set it in context. Quoting one verse alone can induce error, especially if that verse refers to another biblical passage. In that ...
Lire la suite...William Holman Hunt : « The Light of the world » 1851-53
Gilles Castelnau Translation Canon Tony Dickinson In the mid-19th century William Holman Hunt, with a few other painters, brought into being the « Pre-Raphaelite » movement. What they wanted was to rediscover the artistic purity of the Italian primitives, before Raphael, as ...
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Laurent Gagnebin Übersetzung Jean Gaspar In unseren Gottesdiensten legt man viel zu viel Wert auf Sünde, Gnade und Erlösung. Im XIX Jahrhundert schrieb César Malan, der sehr calvinistisch geprägt war und von dem mehrere Kirchenlieder stammen (siehe das Gesangbuch „Louange ...
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Matthew 5.2-10 Louis Pernot Translation Canon Tony Dickinson 3 Happy the poor in spirit, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs! 4 Happy those who weep, for they will be consoled! 5 Happy those who are gentle (or humble), for ...
Lire la suite...A « Disappearing Act » Behind the Text
Gilles Castelnau Translation Louise Thunin Some actors may have lessons to teach ministers and theology students… The actress, Fanny Ardant, is interviewed in the 2015 summer issue of the French monthly, Philosophie, which also interests the interpretors of the Bible ...
Lire la suite...Editorial, October 2015
Raphaël Picon Translation Louise Thunin Some images of God appeal to us. The ones that bear thoughts of movement, creativity, transformation ; the ones that invite us to believe in God as working on embellishing the world, on enriching the possibilities ...
Lire la suite...Carta abierta a un amigo sobre la filosofia
Bruno Álvarez Traducción Julian Mellado He pensado, querido amigo, hacerte esta carta por dos motivos: primero, porque sé que no sabes bien de qué va esto de la filosofía; y segundo, porque sé que muchas personas no entienden para qué ...
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