Biblical Commentaries

An economist reads the Book of Books

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Fullness in an incomplete home

Fullness in an incomplete home

Prophecy is history /4 - The most precious symphonies in life are those that remain unfinished, our true masterpieces by Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire 23/06/2019 « I said, “I will be wise”; But it was far from me. As for that which is far off and exceedingly deep, Who can find it out?&nbs...
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Listening differently to the heart 

Listening differently to the heart 

Prophecy is history / 3 - Solomon's prayer should become the oath of every ruler by Luigino Bruni  Published in Avvenire 16/06/2019 « But you, spectators of the story of the chalk circle, learn from the ruling of the ancients: what is there must belong to those who make good use of it: the cart...
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Each true word is a testament

Each true word is a testament

Prophecy is history /2 – The small and harsh last wishes of a great king confirm that no one is like God  by Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire 09/06/2019 «David was an excellent man equipped with every virtue that a king should possess. He was prudent, tender, kind with those in need, fair an...
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And so paradise became a city

And so paradise became a city

The exile and the promise/28 – There is always a piece of sacred land that is not for sale, and hence priceless by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 19/05/2019 «The price of life stems from things that are priceless. It is within the context of charitable acts, of giving away what he owns and w...
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To learn to rise again

To learn to rise again

Prophecy is history /1 – Do not be afraid of life or of the carnal words of the flesh to narrate man and God by Luigino Bruni pPublished in Avvenire  02/06/2019 « An ancient sage and master of the Mishnah, Ben Bag Bag, once said: « Look at it which way you will, it is all in the Torah...
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The great song of laity

The great song of laity

The exile and the promise/27 – The temple is too small to contain the Love and waters of wisdom by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 12/05/2019 «Alyosha stood, gazed, and suddenly threw himself down on the earth. He did not know why he embraced it. He could not have told why he longed so irresi...
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The prophecy and dignity of taxes

The prophecy and dignity of taxes

Exile and the promise/26 – Before being a merit richness is a gift. We are surrounded by gratuity by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 05/05/2019 « You will not violate the foreigner’s or the orphan’s rights and you will not take the widows robes as collateral. Remember that you were a slave in...
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The value and price of gratuity

The value and price of gratuity

The exile and the promise/25 – Resisting the temptation of the (ideological) normalisation of prophesy by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 28/04/2019 Rabbi Joshua ben Levi said: «In the old days of the Temple, if a man sacrificed a burnt offering he was credited with the value of a burnt offer...
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The sanctity of daily life

The sanctity of daily life

The exile and the promise/24 – In the absence of physical spaces and confines we learn how to worship God “in spirit and in truth” by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 21/04/2019 « To the religious person space isn’t homogenous. This non-homogeneity manifests itself in a veritable contrapositio...
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Despite everything, life

Despite everything, life

The exile and the promise/23 - The real (and biblical) alternative source of energy: keeping warm with burnt down weapons By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire 14/04/2019 « Here is what is difficult in this era: ideals, dreams and good expectations barely have time to be born before they are alr...
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The song of the risen bones

The song of the risen bones

The exile and the promise/22 - Words for this time and age of destroyed temples and disappeared promised lands by Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire 07/04/2019 «How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be bor...
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The meaning of the word heart

The meaning of the word heart

The exile and the promise / 21 - It is the extraordinary alchemy of the Spirit that turns stone into flesh by Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire 31/03/2019 «And My soul became afflicted for the sons of men, because they are blind in their hearts and do not have sight; for empty they came into the w...
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The rule of the weak link

The rule of the weak link

The exile and the promise/ 20 - Salvation (even of the political and economic kind) cannot fail to come by Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire 24/03/2019 «After praying at home, I was sitting on the sofa when a man of magnificent appearance, dressed as a shepherd, came in. He greeted me and I greete...
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The prophets answer for everyone

The prophets answer for everyone

The exile and the promise/ 19 - Solidarity with one's community is special, and wholly fulfilled before God By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire 17/03/2019 «We have lost the ability to sing. Man in his anguish is a messenger who has forgotten the message. The Bible is not a book about God: it is a...