1. The return of light or sound waves from a surface. 2. The reverting of the mind to that which has already occupied it. Contemplation, calm, lengthy, intent consideration.
Rose-Marie Barandiaran: Our job as human beings, according to Bonhoeffer, “is not a religious problem: it is to live the joys and sufferings following the steps of Jesus. To interiorize, to question our moral conscience, to flee from individualism and the self-satisfaction offered by pious works and the search for salvation”. “Faith is our work […]
Rose-Marie Barandiaran: is it not thanks to the “withdrawal of God” that man allows himself to be reached by him? Why, then, do we invoke him in our crises? Why do we separate the worldly from the sacred? Jesus was not a priest. He was simply human. If we take God’s sufferings seriously, if we […]
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born in 1906 in Breslau, Germany (today Wroclaw, Poland). He became a Lutheran pastor and opposed the rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1930s. Suspected of involvement in the assassination attempt on Hitler, he was imprisoned in Berlin in 1943 but maintained contacts with the outside world. He was subsequently transferred […]
We are living in a time of profound planetary civilizational transformation, the most profound and accelerated of the human species Sapiens since its origins 300,000 years ago. We have never been so powerful, yet we have never felt so insecure and vulnerable. It is a time of integral crisis which places us before the great […]
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(Foreword to: Por un cristianismo creíble. [In Support of a Credible Christianity] Author: Pedro Miguel Ansó-Esarte. Publ. Tirant lo Blanc, 2024) What you have here is a tremendous little book, profound and simple, interesting and vibrant, critical and impeccably respectful, and brimming with information and clarity. Each chapter, brief yet substantial in equal measure, strikes […]
Three years ago the book Dieu : la science, les preuves : l’aube d’une révolution (2021) (God, science, the evidence: the dawn of a revolution) by Michel Yves Bolloré and Olivier Bonnassies was published in France. It is presented as the “dawn of a revolution” both scientific and theological. The authors –both are engineers and […]
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“Theism” is as ambiguous as theos (god in Greek) from which it derives, but today it expresses the belief in a god which is a metaphysical supreme being, omnipotent creator and external to the world, in which it intervenes when and how it pleases. A god in which an increasing majority of our society cannot […]
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I agreed to express my support for Pope Francis, but not without misgivings. “It will be personal, not institutional, support,” I warned. Let me explain: my misgivings have nothing to do with him as a person, but with the institutional figure –the absolute papacy– that he continues to represent, with the clerical, masculine model of […]
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ScienceEpilogue to a book of lights and challenges I thank Agustín Gil for this book, which is so clear-sighted and necessary for today. These are difficult and decisive times for humanity and the entire community of the living.Denialism and dogmatism – two disorders only apparently opposed – are the symptom of a planetary civilizational malaise. […]
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On 1 December, as the season called Advent (Coming) covering the four weeks leading up to Christmas was about to commence in the Christian liturgical calendar, Leonardo Boff’s weekly column was entitled “Are we approaching the end of the human species?” Basically, it reproduces a text published in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. For years […]
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The radiant Faith of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (& IV)
/in Reflections /by José ArregiRose-Marie Barandiaran: Our job as human beings, according to Bonhoeffer, “is not a religious problem: it is to live the joys and sufferings following the steps of Jesus. To interiorize, to question our moral conscience, to flee from individualism and the self-satisfaction offered by pious works and the search for salvation”. “Faith is our work […]
The Radiant Faith of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (III)
/in Articles, Reflections /by José ArregiRose-Marie Barandiaran: is it not thanks to the “withdrawal of God” that man allows himself to be reached by him? Why, then, do we invoke him in our crises? Why do we separate the worldly from the sacred? Jesus was not a priest. He was simply human. If we take God’s sufferings seriously, if we […]
The Radiant Faith of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (I)
/in Reflections /by José ArregiDietrich Bonhoeffer was born in 1906 in Breslau, Germany (today Wroclaw, Poland). He became a Lutheran pastor and opposed the rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1930s. Suspected of involvement in the assassination attempt on Hitler, he was imprisoned in Berlin in 1943 but maintained contacts with the outside world. He was subsequently transferred […]
Believers who rethink their faith
/in Prefaces, Reflections /by José ArregiWe are living in a time of profound planetary civilizational transformation, the most profound and accelerated of the human species Sapiens since its origins 300,000 years ago. We have never been so powerful, yet we have never felt so insecure and vulnerable. It is a time of integral crisis which places us before the great […]
Rethinking Christianity
/in Prefaces, Reflections /by José Arregi(Foreword to: Por un cristianismo creíble. [In Support of a Credible Christianity] Author: Pedro Miguel Ansó-Esarte. Publ. Tirant lo Blanc, 2024) What you have here is a tremendous little book, profound and simple, interesting and vibrant, critical and impeccably respectful, and brimming with information and clarity. Each chapter, brief yet substantial in equal measure, strikes […]
Does the universe need a Creator?
/in Reflections /by José ArregiThree years ago the book Dieu : la science, les preuves : l’aube d’une révolution (2021) (God, science, the evidence: the dawn of a revolution) by Michel Yves Bolloré and Olivier Bonnassies was published in France. It is presented as the “dawn of a revolution” both scientific and theological. The authors –both are engineers and […]
Praying without believing in a theistic god
/in Reflections /by José Arregi“Theism” is as ambiguous as theos (god in Greek) from which it derives, but today it expresses the belief in a god which is a metaphysical supreme being, omnipotent creator and external to the world, in which it intervenes when and how it pleases. A god in which an increasing majority of our society cannot […]
Personal, not institutional, support for Pope Francis
/in Reflections /by José ArregiI agreed to express my support for Pope Francis, but not without misgivings. “It will be personal, not institutional, support,” I warned. Let me explain: my misgivings have nothing to do with him as a person, but with the institutional figure –the absolute papacy– that he continues to represent, with the clerical, masculine model of […]
Science, Philosophy and Theology for the 21st Century
/in Books, Prefaces, Reflections /by José ArregiScienceEpilogue to a book of lights and challenges I thank Agustín Gil for this book, which is so clear-sighted and necessary for today. These are difficult and decisive times for humanity and the entire community of the living.Denialism and dogmatism – two disorders only apparently opposed – are the symptom of a planetary civilizational malaise. […]
Christmas and the future of the human species
/in Reflections /by José ArregiOn 1 December, as the season called Advent (Coming) covering the four weeks leading up to Christmas was about to commence in the Christian liturgical calendar, Leonardo Boff’s weekly column was entitled “Are we approaching the end of the human species?” Basically, it reproduces a text published in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. For years […]