Paulus

Codice: RE2621
Autore: AA.VV.
Titolo: Paulus
Sottotitolo: The apostle of the Gentiles
Editore: Vydia Art Editions
Luogo Edizione: Montecassiano
Anno Edizione: 2008
Formato: 30 x 42 cm
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Legatura: Skin
Lingua: Italian
Stato: Italy
Numero pagine: 250 pp + pages of tables
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Note: The work, which opens with the reproduction of the homilies of the Holy Father for the announcement and beginning of the Pauline Year, and of the Decree granting Indulgences, is accompanied by a message from the Archpriest of the Basilica of San Paolo outside the walls until the end of the Pauline Year, Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, who underlines how Paul was "the first truly great communicator in the history of Christianity", whose "evocative force is penetrating like a sword. In this era of communication and globalization, there is a real need for Him". The philosopher Vincenzo Cappelletti traces in the Introduction a theoretical profile of Pauline thought which finds in the discourse on the Areopagus a fundamental passage from ancient wisdom to affirmation of the God "logos" and of the Creator God, a discourse which is "a clear claim of the profound connection between the Man God and the truth, between mystery and thought". The volume includes the "Acts of the Apostles" and the Corpus of Letters Pauline in the new CEI translation. The epistles are each accompanied by a thematic essay by Monsignor Fortunato Frezza, biblical scholar, Under-Secretary of the Synod of Bishops, who was co-author of the new translation of the sacred texts. And then, an extraordinary iconographic set, a real reading plan of the life and thought of the "Apostle of the Gentiles", parallel to the critical one. Alessandro Romano, sculptor, signs 25 highly evocative black and white and color plates, along which the story of the Apostle, witness of the risen Christ, unfolds, from the dramatic stoning of Stephen to the electrocution on the road to Damascus, to the years of meditation in Tarsus, up to his preaching and martyrdom. On the cover, a bronze bas-relief narrates in an emotionally compelling way the central event of Paul's eventful life.