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Las Bienaventuranzas constituye como un pórtico del Sermón de la Montaña, de importancia capital en el Evangelio. Este libro ayuda a meditar y vivir mejor la rica y esencial doctrina que Jesús expone en las Bienaventuranzas. Sus palabras señalan un cambio completo en las usuales valoraciones humanas; una nueva jerarquía de valores, siempre real y siempre vigente.

En lo que se conoce como la 'nueva perspectiva' de Pablo, Wright ha propuesto una visión del mensaje central del apóstol que hace plena justicia a todas las cartas paulinas. En particular se enfoca en la naturaleza centrada en Dios del evangelio de Pablo, argumentando que las lecturas 'tradicionales' de sus epístolas pueden sugerir que el mensaje del apóstol es simplemente sobre nosotros: nuestro pecado, nuestra justificación, nuestra salvación. Justificación: el plan de Dios y la visión de Pablo, de alcance ambicioso, aunque argumentado de cerca, sugiere que esta comprensión crucial ...

Two Sides of the coin' Edward Thomson is a bright young man from a dysfunctional Minnesota family. A Natural athlete and a born leader, who played quarterback in high school football team. Thomson goes to both Columbia University and Harvard law School. While in Harvard Law, he connects with his old Minnesota buddy David Wood. Wood introduces him to a wealthy merchant named John Philip, who takes liking to Thomson. Philip becomes his friend and backer. During his under graduation time at Columbia Thomson also meets his friend Alex as well as his future wife Patricia Quinlan. Upon graduation...

These twelve letters are far from being an abstract and pompous dissertation of theology, much less trite parables that support a vision of a distant god. On the contrary, the words here come out of the voice of a man that has searched for God in the faces of his neighbors. Waiting under the text are questions that the author answers convincingly to what is posed and required of religions today: why does God allow evil to exist? Why is God silent in the midst of human suffering? How to recover the "motherly face of God," that is to say, the feminine side of God? How to speak of God's...