Living in Wonder
It offers a reflection on the loss of the sense of mystery in contemporary Western culture. It argues that modern human beings have reduced reality to what is material and quantifiable, thereby...
Historiography
The Invention of Good and Evil
Hanno Sauer is a professor of ethics at the University of Utrecht and lives in Düsseldorf. His book, written for a general audience and well crafted, presents an engaging structure and traces the...
The Inner Life of Catholic Reform
Lehner presents in this book a long-term perspective on the so-called “Catholic Reformation,” which goes beyond councils, decrees, or political battles, and delves into the concrete spiritual life: how...
The Long Walk
A Polish soldier is arrested by the NKVD (Russian secret police of Stalin) in 1939. His crime: not being a communist. Convicted on a farce process, he is deported to Siberia, to pass 25 years in a forced...
Sakhalin Island
Chekhov decided in 1890 to visit Sakhalin Island in the Pacific, a place where Russian criminals had been exiled since 1857, partly due to a debt he had with medicine that would serve as the basis for his...
History: Why It Matters
The author is a historian from the United States, emeritus professor at Stanford University. With the perspective of years, she writes this essay with four chapters: why there is a growing interest in this...
Daily Life in the Time of Jesus
Book somewhat similar to another title of the author ("Jésus en son temps"). However, this is written 15 years later, with more knowledge, and is dedicated to what the title indicates: the Jewish society of...
Novo Millennio Ineunte
At the conclusion of the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000.
The Apostolic Letter Novo Millennio Ineunte (At the Beginning of the New Millennium) was promulgated by Saint John Paul II on January...
Tertio Millennio Adveniente
In preparation for the Jubilee of the Year 2000.
The Apostolic Letter Tertio Millennio Adveniente was promulgated by Saint John Paul II on November 10, 1994, with the purpose of spiritually...
Manam
At the beginning of the last century, almost the entire Armenian population of Manam (Turkey) was executed by the Turkish army, and the few who survived were deported to Syria.
Lea, a Canadian...