Para la patrística, Cristo representa el nuevo koinon o «bien común» de la humanidad, por el cual esta es redimida y unificada en su naturaleza. El desarrollo de esta noción en el ámbito eclesial, litúrgico, económico y político será de una importancia capital para el devenir de la filosofía política occidental en los siglos posteriores. Este libro, resultado de un proyecto de investigación internacional llevada a cabo por 7 autores, estudia las aportaciones particulares de los Padres de la Iglesia sobre la síntesis teológica de la noción de bien común. Sin esta referencia al trabajo patrístico, el análisis del tema entre los autores escolásticos se vería singularmente empobrecido. La originalidad y profundidad de la reformulación patrística del tema político del bien común es de capital importancia para la teología política actual y su diálogo con el liberalismo político.

This wide-ranging volume looks at the reception history of the Bible's many texts; Part I surveys the outline, form, and content of twelve key biblical books that have been influential in the history of interpretation. Part II offers a series of in-depth case studies of the interpretation of particular biblical passages or books.

Using New Testament "gematria, " symbolic number values encoded in the Greek phrases, the author reveals that the sacred couple was one of the essential pillars of early Christian teachings, before being denied by the architects of institutional Christianity and obscured by later Church doctrine.

I the Supreme imagines a dialogue between the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator known as Dr. Francia and Policarpo Patiño, his secretary and only companion. The opening pages present a sign that they had found nailed to the wall of a cathedral, purportedly written by Dr. Francia himself and ordering the execution of all of his servants upon his death. This sign is quickly revealed to be a forgery, which takes leader and secretary into a larger discussion about the nature of truth: “In the light of what Your Eminence says, even the truth appears to be a lie.” Their conversation broadens into an epic journey of the mind, stretching across the colonial history of their nation, filled with surrealist imagery, labyrinthine turns, and footnotes supplied by a mysterious “compiler.” A towering achievement from a foundational author of modern Latin American literature, I the Supreme is a darkly comic, deeply moving meditation on power and its abuse—and on the role of language in making and unmaking whole worlds.

A critical account of Ricoeur's theory of narrative interpretation and its contribution to theology.