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...
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 a...
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...
A famous Italian theologian's eloquent reflections on beauty and God.
-Beauty is an event: it happens when the Whole, the Al...
