“ICHTHUS”: SÍMBOLOS CRISTÃOS EM QUO VADIS
O peixe é um símbolo célebre para os Cristãos. É provável que você já o tenha visto na traseira de...
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QUO VADIS – HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ
Talvez você até viu o filme, mas já ouviu falar do livro que o inspirou? Quo Vadis, uma das obras mais conceituadas de Henryk Sienkiewicz, é um tour de force que o levará de volta à Roma de Nero, numa história magnífica onde o amor e a fé triunfam até mesmo sobre a loucura do imperador.
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EDITORIAL: O “X” Marca o Lugar
Apesar de tudo… perseveramos, em prol da leitura! Com a presente edição da Biblion, eis-nos...
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THE ART OF SPIRITUAL WARFARE
Conflict is an unavoidable part of living. Everyone has experienced it in some form or another, and everyone has gained or lost something in an attempt to resolve it. From the pettiest dispute to the most devastating war, the human being is familiarized with conflict and often seeks the most advantageous way of dealing with it.
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THE XI’AN-FU: CHRISTIANITY IN CHINA (635-845)
In the eighth chapter, we are presented with an excerpt of what was sculpted in a stone slab, erected in 781 – the Xi’an-Fu, or Si-ngan-fú (also known as the Nestorian Stele), discovered in northwestern China in 1625, and brought by Portuguese Jesuits Álvaro Semedo and Manuel Dias Júnior.
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IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD – SINCLAIR B. FERGUSON
The title In the Year of Our Lord was picked on purpose, and while, according to the author, it doesn’t concern the church’s history, it does take in some of the most significant stories in these two millennia of Christianity. The book’s resolve has much to do with a notorious global tendency to diminish the influence Jesus Christ has had in the history of mankind.
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Fear and Trembling – Soren Kierkegaard
Abraham is for Christians an example of faith, with an incredible story of hope in the midst of adversity. Kierkegaard, however, goes beyond just that. In what many consider to be his magnum opus, the Danish philosopher expresses his tremendous admiration for the man he calls a “knight of faith.”
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PHILOSOPHY: The Grand Inquisitor – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Few novels have chapters so rich and impacting they can stand apart from the rest of the book, yet this is precisely what has happened with the story of “The Grand Inquisitor,” from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s final novel, The Brothers Karamazov.
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BIOGRAPHY: THE MONK WHO SHOOK THE WORLD – CYRIL DAVEY
Who was Luther? Why did he stand against the Catholic Church? How did he come under the protection of Saxony’s prince-elector, Frederick the Wise? The answers to these questions lie in Cyril Davey’s book, The Monk Who Shook the World, a romanticized take on Martin Luther’s life and accomplishments.
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CAEDMON’S HYMN
A RELIC OF CHRISTIAN POETRY Caedmon’s Hymn is the oldest poem to be recorded in Old English, the...
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AGEING LIKE A FINE WINE… RIGHT?
One thing becomes evident as soon as one starts reading Le Morte d’Arthur: it sounds a bit stiff. Sentences just don’t seem to flow when the vast majority of them begins with “So,” “Then,” “And,” or a combination of these.
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“ICHTHUS”: CHRISTIAN SYMBOLS IN QUO VADIS
The fish is a well-known symbol for Christians. You’ve probably seen it displayed in the trunk of cars; if that is the case, then you’ve probably asked yourself also, “Why a fish?” or “What is it supposed to mean?”
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