Historia de la Iglesia

In a meditation on the wisdom of the Vedas, Roberto Calasso brings ritual and sacrifice to bear on the modern world In this revelatory volume, Roberto Calasso, whom The Paris Review has called "a literary institution," explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. Little is known about the Vedic people, who lived more than three thousand years ago in northern India: They left behind almost no objects, images, or ruins. They created no empires. Even the soma, the likely hallucinogenic plant that appears at the center of some of their rituals, has not been identified with any certainty. Only a ...

La cruz como raíz de la perfecta alegría Dos grandes maestros, el padre Raniero Cantalamessa y el cardenal Carlo Maria Martini, vuelven a la figura de san Francisco de Asís y, leyendo algunos pasajes bíblicos, conducen al lector a redescubrir la raíz de la perfecta alegría en la misteriosa belleza de la cruz.

Una de las características del actual Código de Derecho Canónico es su fuerte impronta personalista, perceptible a lo largo de todo su articulado, y de modo muy notable, en la regulación del matrimonio. En esta obra, en la que han participado profesores de diversas universidades civiles y eclesiásticas y colaboradores de los Tribunales eclesiásticos, se estudian, desde diversas perspectivas, los rastros de esta impronta personalista del Código, con especial atención al Derecho matrimonial.

The renowned psychologist and philosopher argues that individual religious experiences, rather than the tenets of organized religions, form the backbone of religious life; discussing conversion, repentance, mysticism, and hope of reward and fears of punishment in the hereafter, as well as his observations on the religious experiences of such diverse thinkers as Voltaire, Emerson, and Luther.