El Evangelio según San Juan

The Beatitudes – these “eight madness of Christ”, as someone has called them – are the constitution and the vital mark of Christianity. To pray from them is to find the clues to respond from our Christian vocation. Poverty, suffering, oppression, neediness, mercy, truthfulness, peace and persecution are the compasses that help us find our North, which is the Father, and it gives us the necessary information to direct our steps and our heart towards him who is our source and destiny. In the pages of this book, the reader will find reflections, prayers and questions that will help the...

En la perspectiva del 75 aniversario de la canonización de Don Bosco y de la preparación del bicentenario de su nacimiento en el año 2015, este libro dirige la mirada a los orígenes de la Familia Salesiana, especialmente al mismo Don Bosco, y estimula a conocerle, amarle e imitarle mejor. El 26 Capítulo General de la Congregación Salesiana recordó que la pasión de Don Bosco por la salvación de la juventud es su verdadera herencia, y que esta pasión está plenamente expresada en el lema que él vivió y dejó a la Familia Salesiana: Da mihi animas, cetera toole. Salesianamente sólo...

Leading biblical scholar Mark Allan Powell is convinced that the church must pay much greater attention to the growing Hispanic population in the United States and equip future leaders to minister to Spanish-speaking people. This Spanish edition of Powell's lively, engaging introduction to the New Testament is critical yet faith-friendly, lavishly illustrated, and includes a variety of pedagogical aids. Powell founded and directs the Spanish for Ministry program at Trinity Lutheran Seminary and travels every summer to a different Latin American country to study the native language and...

Current applications (or rather, misapplications) of Islamic law are reductionist rather than holistic, literal rather than moral, one-dimensional rather than multidimensional, binary rather than multi-valued, deconstructionist rather than reconstructionist, and causal rather than teleological. There is lack of consideration and functionality of the overall purposes and underlying principles of the Islamic law as a whole. Further, exaggerated claims of ‘rational certainty’ (or else, ‘irrationality’) and ‘consensus of the infallible’ (or else, ‘historicity of the scripts’) add...