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Relational goods against envy: how the Jubilee changes society
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Relational goods against envy: how the Jubilee changes society

Economy of joy/10 - A reflection on the distance between capitalism and “sabbatical culture” completes our journey into the biblical roots of the Holy Year by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 15/07/2025 We began this series of articles with the relationship between capitalism and the Jubile... 
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The Law, Jesus the “serial transgressor” and the dynamic tension that sets us free
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The Law, Jesus the “serial transgressor” and the dynamic tension that sets us free

Economy of Joy/9 - Christianity loses its transformative power if the Gospel is turned into a manual for “binding” instead of “unbinding” by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 01/07/2024 At the heart of the Jubilee and its humanism is the shabbat, the Sabbath, which we have been repeating, wi... 
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The importance of knowing when to stop before reaching the point of no return
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The importance of knowing when to stop before reaching the point of no return

Economy of joy 8 / Nebuchadnezzar's long-cherished dreams of power and our struggle to recognize the moment when we begin to believe we are invincible by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on June 17, 2025 «Do not imagine yourselves to be above other men, for your profiles are worn down by the f... 
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It is time to free our hearts from the slavery of wanting to be perfect
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It is time to free our hearts from the slavery of wanting to be perfect

Economy of Joy 7/ The Sabbath of the Jubilee helps us understand when we are becoming our own pharaohs. To learn how to let all our beauty blossom by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on June 3, 2025 The sabbatical culture, which is the foundation of the Jubilee, contains a very important anthr... 
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Beatitudes, “Shabbat of the Gospel” that opens a new time here and now
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Beatitudes, “Shabbat of the Gospel” that opens a new time here and now

Economy of joy 6/ With the Holy Year, we rediscover the law impressed by God in the rest from our servitude, which dominates the flow of life by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on May 20, 2025 «If God exists, today he needs someone who, if he cannot say who he is, at least says who he is not.... 
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True freedom is always a gift. The Jubilee helps us understand this
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True freedom is always a gift. The Jubilee helps us understand this

Economy of Joy 5/ - The Holy Year as a favorable time to remember our own liberation and become liberators for others by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 06/05/2025 Freedom is a special good. We love many things, but what we love is beautiful and good if and because we are free. And if we a... 
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When the temple becomes a source and even taxes become a Jubilee
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When the temple becomes a source and even taxes become a Jubilee

Economy of joy 4/ - From the exile of the Jewish people in Babylon emerges the simplicity of authentic faith, which is refined and stripped bare over time by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 23/04/2025 In Ezekiel's prophetic vision, the house of God is transformed into a river, symbol of a ... 
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The Jubilee begins outside the temple with concrete actions and «in the streets»
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The Jubilee begins outside the temple with concrete actions and «in the streets»

Economy of joy 3/ The culture of the Jubilee runs deep throughout the Bible, as in the two crucial episodes of the Book of Nehemiah by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 08/04/2025 The culture of the Jubilee should not be sought only in the texts that expressly regulate the Jubilee or the sab... 
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Peace and freedom at risk for those who follow false prophets
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Peace and freedom at risk for those who follow false prophets

Economy of joy 2/ What the biblical story of the liberation of the slaves during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem teaches us by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 25/03/2025 The sabbatical and jubilee culture informs the entire biblical humanism. The weekly celebration of the Shabbat, and th... 
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The Jubilee, a ‘sabbatical’ to give our lives a breather
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The Jubilee, a ‘sabbatical’ to give our lives a breather

Economy of joy 1/ Jewish sources begin the journey into the meaning of an event with revolutionary potential: why we are not the ‘masters’ of anything by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 11/03/2025 The biblical jubilee was above all an economic and social affair. It was the announcement of ... 
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Here are those pages of the Bible that we are called to write
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Here are those pages of the Bible that we are called to write

In the belly of the Word/11 - The book of Jonah ends with a question from God that remains open by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 28/04/2024 «In the whole psychology of the "Gospels" the concepts of guilt and punishment are lacking, and so is that of reward. "Sin", which means anything th... 
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When even anger becomes a prayer
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When even anger becomes a prayer

In the belly of the Word/10 - Jonah's last words brought a new vocabulary into the relationship by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 21/04/2024 "Among the various realities present before creation, in addition to the Torah there is repentance. How could there be repentance before sin? In t... 
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Wisdom is learned in the ephemeral shadow of the Castor
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Wisdom is learned in the ephemeral shadow of the Castor

In the belly of the Word/9 - The second shelter, given by God, brings the prophet back to his vocation Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 14/04/2024 "It was not easy to forget the period spent in the belly of the fish; on the contrary, it had dramatic consequences. The strong heat of that bel... 
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Jonah and his vocation to defend God's truth
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Jonah and his vocation to defend God's truth

In the belly of the Word/8 - The Bible is the absolute guardian and so it has maintained its effectiveness Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 07/04/2024 Look you now, how ready mortals are to blame the gods. Homer, Odyssey 1.32 -33 , in Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals, p. 84 “When God saw wha...