MEMENTO

By analyzing a varied body of writing- hagiographies, histories, treatises, and correspondence- in the context of religious colonial culture and European mercantilism, Mario Cesareo shows how Portuguese and Spanish missionaries created a Christian understanding of the colonial process. The material excess of the colonial world, experienced as a capricious parade of signs, masks, objects, races, languages, and bodies subjected to European exploitation, presented a problem of the first magnitude for Christian missionaries. In order to render intelligible the incongruities of the colonial...

Find peace on Earth? The Lord finish his history about the widow and the judge in Luke 18: 8 saying: But when the Son of man come, will he find faith on earth? I don't have authority to answer what the Lord didn't answer, but I do can appreciate what the Holy Spirit inspires in my heart when I think about the Lord's question. I want to plant a seed in many life as I can, that is the reason this book is published.

Many people have the compassionate wish to benefit others, but few understand how to accomplish this successfully in daily life. Bodhisattvas are friends of the world, who have such strong compassion that they are able to transform all their daily activities into ways of benefiting others. The path of the Bodhisattva was exquisitely explained in the universally loved poem Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life by the the 8th century master Shantideva. With this commentary, the full effectiveness and profundity of this wonderful poem are revealed in full and made applicable for our time....

Considerado el comentario por excelencia entre todos los comentarios del A.T., citado constantemente por todos los demás comentaristas, lingüistas y estudiosos de la Biblia, el "Biblischer Commentar über das Alte Testament", trabajo magistral de investigación filológica realizado por Johann Friedrich Carl Keil y Franz Julius Delitzsch, es reconocido universalmente como la obra más completa, seria y erudita que se ha escrito sobre el Antiguo Testamento. Y la mejor vía de aproximación a la complejidad del sentido original de las palabras utilizadas en el texto hebreo.