Subject: VISnews 111129   
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   From: Vatican Information Service - Eng - txt    
      
   VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
      
   TWENTY FIRST YEAR - N. 209   
   ENGLISH   
   TUESDAY, 29 NOVEMBER 2011   
      
   SUMMARY:   
      
   - Lectures on the Pope's Book about Jesus of Nazareth   
   - Humanitas Magazine to Have English-Language Edition   
      
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   LECTURES ON THE POPE'S BOOK ABOUT JESUS OF NAZARETH   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 29 NOV 2011 (VIS) - The Vatican Publishing House is organising   
   a series of lectures to promote Benedict XVI's book: "Jesus of Nazareth.   
   From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection". One of these took   
   place yesterday in the Italian University of Messina where the main address   
   was given by Bishop Enrico Dal Covolo S.D.B., rector of the Pontifical   
   Lateran University.   
      
     Bishop Dal Covolo explained that, while the Pope's first book on Jesus of   
   Nazareth covered His public life beginning with His Baptism in the Jordan,   
   the second is dedicated to the last few days of His earthly existence, until   
   the resurrection.   
      
     "This disproportion", said the Bishop, "helps us to understand immediately   
   that the passion, death and resurrection are not simply the epilogue of   
   Jesus' life. They are what gives meaning to all the rest. It is from the   
   crucified and risen Christ that the entire narrative of His life is   
   illuminated". Likewise "the accounts of His passion and death, though they   
   come last in the Gospels, are the oldest and most detailed of the oral and   
   written traditions".   
      
     The book starts from the premise that "if scholarly exegesis is not to   
   exhaust itself in constantly new hypotheses, becoming theologically   
   irrelevant, it must take a methodological step forward and see itself once   
   again as a theological discipline, without abandoning its historical   
   character".   
      
     "The road along which the Pope takes us", said Bishop Dal Covolo, "leads   
   us to meditate upon the 'hour' of Jesus, His 'lifting up'; in other words,   
   upon the inseparable moment of death-resurrection".   
      
     The book "is the work of a lifetime, in which both the method used and the   
   contents ... draw nourishment from a deep-rooted and mature love for Christ.   
   In the final analysis, the leitmotif of the work is intimate friendship with   
   Jesus, a theme which the Pope himself personifies as both witness and   
   theologian. Indeed, true knowledge of Jesus - for Pope Benedict just as for   
   the Beloved Disciple - comes from resting on His heart".   
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   HUMANITAS MAGAZINE TO HAVE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE EDITION   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 29 NOV 2011 (VIS) - At 6.30 p.m. today in the offices of the   
   Pontifical Commission for Latin America, a conference will be held to   
   present the English edition of Humanitas, a magazine of Christian   
   anthropology and culture produced by the Pontifical Catholic University of   
   Chile.   
      
     Participating in this evening's event will be Guzman Carriquiry, secretary   
   of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America; Ignacio Sanchez, rector of   
   the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and Jaime Antunez, editor in   
   chief of Humanitas.   
      
     The magazine was founded in Santiago de Chile in 1995 and comprises a   
   council of some of the most outstanding intellectual figures of the Catholic   
   world. Since its inception, the magazine has described its mission as that   
   of "being a vehicle for thought and study which seeks to reflect the   
   concerns and teachings of pontifical Magisterium", as a premise for fruitful   
   dialogue with modern society and culture.   
      
     The first English edition of the magazine has 252 pages and incorporates a   
   large number of articles from the sixty-third Spanish edition   
   (July-September 2011), which was dedicated to "Blessed John Paul II, gift of   
   Divine Mercy" and focused entirely on the person and work of the late   
   Pontiff. The English edition also includes essays written by Cardinals   
   Angelo Scola, Angelo Amato S.D.B., Avery Robert Dulles S.J. (who died in   
   2008), Stanislaw Dziwisz and Mauro Piacenza, and by a number of academics   
   including Livio Melina, Stanislav Grygiel, Pedro Morande and Carl Anderson.   
      
     The English edition of Humanitas will appear twice a year, both on paper   
   and in a digital version which may be consulted at the website:   
   www.humanitas.cl.   
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