"Though of course more details will be discussed, but I hope that I have been given to approach the figure of our Lord in a way that may be useful to all readers who want to meet Jesus and believe him. " So, with a double signature "Joseph Ratzinger - Benedict XVI" , the Pope states the objective principal of his work on "Jesus of Nazareth " now in its second volume, which recounts the life of Jesus' entrance into Jerusalem to the resurrection. " The text is being presented today at the Press Room of the Holy See, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, and Claudio Magris, writer and Germany.
the spread of the volume, the Vatican press office announced the publishing contract concluded for this edition. Are already underway or completed translations in 20 of the main languages \u200b\u200bin the world, including Catalan, Czech, Malayalam, Ukrainian, Hungarian. In negotiating the translations Arabic, Korean, greek, japanese.
are some thirty countries and publishers who have already signed contracts for publication in major countries including Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, India, Malta, while negotiations are advanced for Lebanon and the Middle East, Korea, Greece and Japan. Some of the major publishers have already signed contracts for the publication.
Already in the preface to the first volume, Pope Benedict XVI had said that he wished to illustrate the figure and message of Jesus "By exaggerating a bit '- says the holy father - one could say that I wanted to find the real Jesus" . "I tried - continued - to develop a look at the Jesus of the Gospels and listening to him that he could become a meeting and yet, listening in communion with the disciples of Jesus of all time, also come to the certainty of the truly historic figure of Jesus This task was in the second part even more difficult than the first, for only the second meet in the words and decisive events in the life of Jesus. "
In the foreword, Pope Benedict admits that it was for him a source of joy to the fact that his first volume has also been accepted by the Protestant theologian Ringleben Joachim, author of another text about Jesus and - adds the Pope - " so say, a brother ecumenical. " This shows that, "although with different theological approaches, is the same faith that acts, is an encounter with the Lord Jesus I hope that both books, in their diversity and harmony in their essential, may be a witness in this ecumenical Now, in its way, can serve the common core mission of Christians. "
Finally, Benedict XVI announced its intention to keep the promise made in the first part of the book, insisting that the will to write a "small file" on the childhood of Jesus, "if so I will still be given the strength."
is the "Christian joy," the key to reading the book, as indicated by Benedict XVI himself when he recalls that Christ ascending to heaven "holds his hands extended over us" to protect all humanity. "He comes When going to rise above ourselves and the world open to God why the disciples were able to rejoice when they returned home from Bethany. By faith we know that Jesus, blessing, holds his hands extended over us. This is why standing of Christian joy. "
The new law proposed by Jesus "is not a new rule, but the new interior donated by the same Spirit of God." As for the betrayal of Judas, a symbol of all the betrayals by men, Benedict XVI writes that "through a series of seemingly petty forms of infidelity," he "spiritually decade and so, eventually, out of the light, enter night, and is no longer capable of conversion.
"In the passion of Jesus, all the dirt of the world comes into contact with the immensely Pure (...). The dirt of the world is actually absorbed, annulled, transformed by the pain of the infinite. " This radical transformation occurs at the time of the resurrection of Jesus - he added - "is a sort of 'decisive change' (...), a quantum leap. " In it "has reached a new chance to be a man, a possibility that affects everyone."
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