The story of Tomáš Halík, as he so accurately puts it in his latest book, is deeply intertwined with the history of modernday Bohemia, a history of oppression that he helped transform into a present of freedom and openness.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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