LAWRENCE MF SUDBURY
Historian, writer and essayist
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IN USCITA A GIUGNO 2024
KALTTAYKH
Kalttaykh è un paese come tanti, perso in una campagna senza storia. Tutto vi procede placidamente come sempre, tra piccole e grandi ipocrisie, pettegolezzi al pub e la certezza che nulla possa scalfire il tranquillo scorrere di giorni sempre uguali. Poi, inaspettatamente, sull’argine del fiume viene trovato il cadavere di un uomo semi-decapitato da una scarica di pallini da caccia. Sarà l’ispettore Sebastian Becks, unico e improbabile tutore dell’ordine del comune, dimenticato dall’amministrazione statale in quell’avamposto dell’oblio che odia e in cui è odiato sia per il suo modo di comportarsi da finto duro che perché “forestiero”, a doversi far carico del caso. Le sue indagini lo porteranno a illuminare zone d’ombra e a scoprire come il delitto sia opera di una mente geniale e contorta che ha portato a termine la sua vendetta per eventi accaduti trent’anni prima...
PREVENDITA SCONTATA SUL SITO E-COMMERCE DEL GRUPPO SANTELLI:
I CUSTODI DELLA VERITA'
ISBN: 979-8455339493
Esistono Verità ufficiali che non devono essere messe in dubbio. Ma cosa accadrebbe se un racconto di duemila anni fa, qualora fosse ritenuto credibile, rischiasse di demolire l’intero edificio della cultura occidentale?
Nel XVI secolo quel racconto ha già portato alla rovina un uomo, Miguel Servet, che, ritenendo che il mondo dovesse conoscere la Verità alternativa in esso contenuta, ha immolato la sua esistenza su un rogo voluto da Calvino.
Ora quel racconto è finito in mano a Eamon Doyle, ex-gesuita irlandese che, invece, non crede più in nessuna Verità ma che, in una Roma in cui c’è chi è disposto a uccidere perché nulla turbi Verità secolari, si troverà coinvolto in una vicenda dai toni sempre più misteriosi e metterà a rischio la sua stessa vita in nome del sapere e della libertà di pensiero.
MALTA 1775: THE TWILIGHT OF THE KNIGHTS
ISBN: 9798718718317
Malta, second half of the 18th century: Bartolomeo, coming from one of the most important families of the papal nobility, is a Knight of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta who rules the island. Captain of the "Levriero", a vessel given to him by his father and part of the Melitense fleet, a member of the Grand Master's guard, a friend of some trusted confreres, the young man, while realizing that the Order is no longer what it once was, seems to have fulfilled his dreams and is satisfied with his own existence. One evening, however, Bartolomeo casually sees something he shouldn't see and everything changes radically: for the Roman nobleman a descending parable begins that will lead him to clash with the power games at the top of the island's government, to become an outcast of the Order and, even, to become a fugitive accused of murder. His new condition will drag him into a series of adventures and encounters that will give him the opportunity to better understand himself and the reality that surrounds him, to get to have a not secondary role in the "Revolt of the Priests" led by don Gaetano Mannarino and, unexpectedly, to fall in love ...
VERSO QUEL CAMPO ... ...
ISBN: 9780244905156
Seven poems are but an infinitesimal part of Rumi's immense production and, certainly, they cannot, alone, account for the quantity of themes addressed by the Master of Konya.
Their succinct analysis presented in this text is intended to be a first invitation to the reading of this great mystic, to the consequent meditation on the depth of his spirituality and its universality and, why not, a starting point for the inclusion at least of traits of his thought in the core of one's own transcendental perspective and one's own vital path.
DESTINATARIO SCONOSCIUTO
ISBN: 9781326771539
Six letters about our complicated time and its contradictions, about the disenchantment that arises from the observation of reality and about a hope that tenaciously wants to continue to exist despite everything. Six letters to those who will never read them and to anyone who wants to read them ... letters of love for the human being: a difficult, thwarted but, also, obstinately strong love ...
MY GOD HAS NO NAME BUT LOVE
ISBN: 9781326577766
Is there another way to understand one's spiritual path? A way that binds itself to universal human values, that frees itself from the concept of orthodoxy, that goes beyond denominational walls and normative-legalist challenges to appeal to the constitutive essence of the human being, which considers the concept of religion as a tool and not as a goal and that focuses on a transformation in the real life of those who decide to project their lives on a transcendental plane? The author believes this and wants to accompany the reader, in the wake of Panikkar's thought, on a journey to discover a new perspective, linked to orthopraxis, to live our faith.
FERDINANDO BRACCIFORTI, UNITARIANO
ISBN; 9781291771077
The contribution of the Unitarian denomination was important in the struggle for freedom of thought in post-Risorgimento Italy. That group had a leader, respected and appreciated by the great Italian and European personalities at the end of the 1800s, but today practically unknown to everyone: Count Ferdinando Bracciforti. On this man who conversed on an equal footing with the leading philosophers of his time, who devoted his entire life to affirming the right of every man not to be subjected to any religious coercion other than to his own conscience and to preach historical, social, spiritual and economic necessity of an adult faith, free from any superstition, any meaningless mystery, any untouchable literalism, nothing has been written. This book is dedicated to him, to his strength, his freedom of thought and his intellectual depth, in the hope that it will at least help to remove that oblivion to which a "history of the majority" has unjustly condemned him.
VITE ERETICHE
ISBN: 9781291322217
Perhaps it is the fate of religious ideas to shatter into many streams of interpretation. Perhaps it is natural that this happens: if it is true that every man builds his own image of God and that, in some ways, "free interpretation" is at the very root of the meaning of the Reformation, then doctrinal divisions are almost normal, in the end at least almost implicit in the system of thought in which they arise. There is an exemplary history in this sense, a history of the radical Reformation of the sixteenth century, that of the birth of the Unitarians and their immediate split into two currents. This text recounts the "heretical" lives of the protagonists of that story.
L'ULTIMO GIORNO
ISBN: 9788861223745
For some years we have been hearing about the year 2012 as the "end of the world" in relation to dark Mayan prophecies. Beyond sensationalism and unjustified fears, the eschatological theme is considered one of the most complex and rich in the entire historical religious panorama. In this text the author, an expert in the history of religions, outlines, with a popular but not simplistic style, a complete picture of the evolution of thought linked to the "end of the world", both diachronically, analyzing the interpretation of "eschaton" in the ancient faiths, both in a synchronic sense, outlining the development of the theme both in the oriental faiths and in the monotheistic Abrahamic faiths.
DISPACCI DALL'EX-IMPERO
ISBN: 9788861223066
In a period in which the Arab nations are continuously on the front pages of all newspapers, this text, made up of articles concerning little-known aspects of some of the major countries of the former Ottoman Empire, aims to be a contribution to the knowledge of some historical, social and religious elements of a universe of thought that for our Western mentality is often mysterious and at times disturbing. These are brief focuses, the result of the author's years of contacts with the Middle East and North Africa, on particular issues, "dispatches" that help shed light on issues that are only marginally dealt with in Europe but whose synchronic and diachronic analysis can allow, if not the full assimilation of ways of thinking that will always remain alien to us, at least the understanding of some of the motivations and perspectives that move the Arab world.
CRISTIANI A GERUSALEMME
ISBN: 9788830719415
Jerusalem, the holy city of the three great Abrahamic religions. The media speak almost exclusively of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And the Christian minority? What is its role? What does it mean for Christians of various denominations to live in Jerusalem? This book tells their story, mostly through interviews with sixteen church leaders or leaders who perform important social functions. Their experiences, their opinions are presented directly: the result is a large and lively picture of the situation. The problems - even of an ecumenical nature - are many and different, but what emerges is the awareness of having to give a common witness. The Christians of Jerusalem feel particularly close to the "hidden mystery", the paschal mystery of Jesus Christ which took place precisely in this city, and express the hope that one day it will become a city of brotherhood and peace for the whole 'humanity.
OLTRE LA DESTRA DEL PADRE
ISBN: 9788861222427
A natural continuation of the previous Il Regno visto da sinistra, this text explores the other side of the coin: that part of the traditionalist Church which, in recent years, seems to have more and more success within Catholicism. How did the passage from the conciliar Church, with its desire for renewal, to a Church in which conservatism is the dominant ideological element come about? What were the events and the protagonists of this process? Are the traditionalists, developing the wide and varied paths of the extreme defenders of the “Traditio Fidei”, internal or external to the Vatican bureaucracy? These are the questions that this book tries to answer through a detailed review of the historical events which, starting from the Second Vatican Council, gradually, through the development and subsequent partial recomposition of the Lefebvre Schism, the birth of the various groups of sedevacantists and the progressive growth in importance of the more conservative movements led to the current situation.
IL REGNO VISTO DA SINISTRA
ISBN: 9788861222021
The purpose of this text is to introduce the reader, through twelve easy-to-understand essays which touch upon the major nuclei of dissidence of the 1900s (from Modernism to post-conciliar movements, from the experience of the "Working Priests" to the latest developments relating to the stiffening of the Vatican of the last twenty years of the century), in a world like that of the "intraecclesia" currents of thought, often unknown outside the focus of the "insiders" but which had a profound effect on the setting of the religion of millions of human beings and, consequently, their way of living the Faith.
NICEA: WHAT IT WAS, WHAT IT WAS NOT
ISBN: 9780979062520
The Council of Nicea changed the shape of Christianity. How did it take place? Which were the main elements of discussion? Mainly, which was the imperial role in its decisions? The author examines the historical data about the Council to find out how little religiously shaped were its conclusions.
L'ANIMA E LA SVASTICA
ISBN: 9788861221321
Faced with the barbarism of Nazism, one might be tempted to think that it was a regime far from any sense of spirituality, devoted only to the conquest of power. In fact, National Socialism, on historical analysis, is profoundly founded on spiritual and para-religious needs, often deviant but, nevertheless, the result of a pre-existing European culture. What were these needs? What were their roots? How did they develop to form such a repugnant ideology?
NON PER MANO D'UOMO?
ISBN: 9788862230704
What are acheropite images? What is the history of the most important of them? Above all, does it really make sense, historically, to talk about miraculous acheropithia? The text tries to answer these questions, in the light of the "state of the art" of historical research.
IL GRAAL E' DENTRO DI NOI (II Edition)
ISBN: 9788863070231
A hypothesis of interpretation on the true meaning of the Grail symbol: through historical, literary and symbolic analyzes of the Grail, the author tries to discover what it was originally, at the time of the birth of the myth and its penetration into Western culture.