JEROME MURPHY O CONNOR

Elautor, religioso dominico, docente e investigador en el Ecole Biblique de Jerusalen, presenta una guía completa con 150 planos, mapas, esquemas y fotografias de calidad. Propone varios recorridos por la Ciudad Vieja de Jerusalen y una lista alfabetica con la descripcion minuciosa de los principales lugares de interes del resto del pais.

Con este libro, Jerome Murphy- LIBROS O'Connor crea una biografía basada en los estudios que lleva dedicando a Pablo y al mundo del Nuevo Testamento durante toda su vida. De sus páginas surge un personaje apasionado y contradictorio. Su teología, forjada en el diálogo y la confrontación, aparece más inteligible que nunca a medida que nuestra percepción de su vida se hace cada vez más profunda. El análisis que Pablo hizo del mundo en que vivió todavía vale para nuestra sociedad contemporánea. Tal grado de precisión e intuición debería darnos confi anza suficiente en las soluciones que propuso a fin de que la cristiandad fuera un verdadero instrumento de cambio.

For someone who has exercised such a profound influence on Christian theology, Paul remains a shadowy figure behind the barrier of his complicated and difficult biblical letters. Debates about his meaning have deflected attention from his personality, yet his personality is an important key to understanding his theological ideas. This book redresses the balance. Jerome Murphy-O'Connor's disciplined imagination, nourished by a lifetime of research, shapes numerous textual, historical, and archaeological details into a colourful and enjoyable story of which Paul is the flawed but undefeated hero. This chronological narrative offers new insights into Paul's intellectual, emotional, and religious development and puts his travels, mission, and theological ideas into a plausible biographical context. As he changes from an assimilated Jewish teenager in Tarsus to a competitive Pharisee in Jerusalem and then to a driven missionary of Christ, the sometimes contradictory components of Paul's complex personality emerge from the way he interacts with people and problems. His theology was forged in dialogue and becomes more intelligible as our appreciation of his person deepens. In Jerome Murphy-O'Connor's engaging biography, the Apostle comes to life as a complex, intensely human individual.