Foreword by Pope John Paul II
Translated by David Glenday
A little more than a year before his death, Pope John Paul II gathered his closest aides for an extended retreat at the Vatican. During this retreat Bruno Forte offered a series of meditations revolving around Jesus' words in John 8:12: -Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.-
Now translated by David Glenday and collected in this lovely book, these meditations draw us into the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus and orient us toward the mission of the church. A master of...

The 1990 CIME course on Mathematical Modelling of IndustrialProcesses set out to illustrate some advances in questionsof industrial mathematics, i.e.of the applications ofmathematics (with all its "academic" rigour) to real-lifeproblems.The papers describe the genesis of the models and illustratetheir relevant mathematical characteristics. Among thethemesdealt with are: thermally controlled crystal growth, thermal behaviour of a high-pressure gas-discharge lamp, thesessile-drop problem, etching processes, the batch-coil-annealing process, inverse problems in classical dynamics, image...

A famous Italian theologian's eloquent reflections on beauty and God.

-Beauty is an event: it happens when the Whole, the All, offers itself to us in the fragment, when the Infinite makes itself little.- This is how Bruno Forte describes the long-held Christian tradition that traces beauty back to God and sees God as the source of all beauty. But, he questions, is this really possible? How can the limitless inhabit what is little? In The Portal of Beauty Forte examines the deep, though not always obvious, contribution of theological thought -- from the minds...