"God has no beard" Gianluca Ferrara
(Essays, Religion, Spirituality)
Creative Editions Series
Pleiades
€ 10.00
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"The teaching of Jesus, after 2000 years, yet scandal
" God did not beard "Gianluca Ferrara is a frank book, that caresses the ear and food for thought without the need to resort to linguistic complacency. It is the choice of immediacy, the real strength of this book puts the reader that problems often deliberately ignored. Ferrara urges us to know a God without a beard, "that is" a new way of understanding our life and creation, through reflections on God, on the values \u200b\u200bof life, poverty, weapons that continue to speak out. Ferrara offers a choice of another road, but as a believer does not need to be faithful to make choices in life sober, attentive to the poor, taking care of a world that seems unable to do without injustice.
not lacking in the work of Ferrara some criticisms of the Church, although there appear to be critical to the Mother of a child, motivated by love. And it is the love theme that pervades every page of the book. Ferrara himself reminds us that it's time to not ask the usual question: "What do I gain" rather : "I know love?" .
Lucida, then, the introduction of Father Alex Zanotelli, a Comboni missionary, who shared in Africa's extreme poverty of those who lived in a landfill, in Korogocho. Father Alex, with force, remember that you can not stay neutral, not taking sides against the "system" that governs the world, ignoring the huge amount of people who die of hunger, not knowing that we are destroying (in the name of economic profit) our planet. Father Alex is right therefore when he says that if God is presented as the God of this world, the rich, the powerful, the warmongers, then there should not be surprised atheism.
You can change this world so problematic? Ferrara argues that it is possible, with the logic of love, the same logic that motivated those who are called fools, heroes, revolutionaries, saints, the same logic that has characterized the lives of Mother Teresa, Francis of Assisi, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King.
Review by Matthew Pugliares
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