LA GRANDEZA DE DESCUBRIRSE

Este cuarto volumen de la Historia de la Iglesia católica abarca la época del absolutismo monárquico, conocido comúnmente como Antiguo Régimen. Comienza en el año 1648, el de la paz de Wesftalia, con el que se clausura el período centenario de la Contrarreforma, y concluye en 1814, después de asistir a los hechos que desembocaron en la Revolu-ción francesa. Entre tanto se viven acontecimientos históricos de enorme relevancia desde el regalismo absolutista al despotismo ilustrado- que obligan a la Iglesia a replantear su estructura e incluso su propia vida interna.

Los doce a quienes dio el nombre de apóstoles Los autores, siguiendo el método de la lectio divina, nos presentan a los miembros del colegio apostólico a través de una lectura creyente del Nuevo Testamento.

Translated by Kieran Kavanaugh, OCD, and Otilio Rodriguez, OCD. Contains Book of Her Foundations and Minor Works. In 1573, while staying in Salamanca to assist her nuns in the task of establishing one of her seventeen monasteries, Teresa began composing the story of their foundation. The Book of Her Foundations comprises the major portion of Volume Three. This book not only tells the story of the establishment of her monasteries but, characteristic of Teresa, digresses into counsels on prayer, love, melancholy, virtuous living and dying, plus other teachings of the Mother Foundress. This book ...

For many of our contemporaries, God is something of the past, and to be agnostic is the solution for a developed and progressive world. Before such situation, this book wants to help Christians, who come from a tradition of twenty centuries, to speak of God keeping in mind the moment in which live, and to show to non believers that to believe is something reasonable and up-to-date and that, beyond prejudices, faith is not alienating but rather it is in itself a deep and liberating option.