Viviendo con Jezebel

In a meditation on the wisdom of the Vedas, Roberto Calasso brings ritual and sacrifice to bear on the modern world In this revelatory volume, Roberto Calasso, whom The Paris Review has called "a literary institution," explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. Little is known about the Vedic people, who lived more than three thousand years ago in northern India: They left behind almost no objects, images, or ruins. They created no empires. Even the soma, the likely hallucinogenic plant that appears at the center of some of their rituals, has not been identified with any certainty. Only a ...

Dios ha estado siempre presente en la historia de la humanidad, sin haberse dejado encerrar jamás en templo alguno, y el autor Junior Zapata nos ayuda en este libro a verlo obrar en medio de nuestra historia.

Ante el colapso de las grandes ideologías en el siglo XX, y la emergencia de nuevos fundamentalismos religiosos, necesitamos pistas sobre la crisis global de nuestra civilización. Para detectarlas se requiere un repaso de la tradición bíblica en sus tres corrientes, la cristiana, la islámica y la judía, que de paso han incorporado el pensamiento griego clásico y provocado el surgimiento del pensamiento laico. Es el propósito de este libro comparar sus diversos enfoques e interacciones respecto a cuatro ejes: la relación con la fuente común que es el Antiguo Testamento, la manera de...

What is a dogma and how should it be defined? Are theology or dogmatics necessary? What is the task of theology and what are the methods which it should use? What is religion? Is it possible for God to reveal himself to men, and how? How can we know if the Bible is the Word of God? For those who are considering going to Seminary, to be pastors or simply Christians with ample knowledge of their faith, this is a good book to begin with.