Christianity in a Nutshell - Softcover

Leonardo Boff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1626980306 ISBN 13: 9781626980303

Publisher: Orbis Books, 2013

For over fifty years and in more than sixty books, Leonardo Boff has explored the mysteries of the Christian message. In this short work he sets out to describe the essence of Christianity in language that is accessible and meaningful within the contemporary worldview, including the scientific understanding of evolution and the expanding cosmos. His essential question: How does Christianity fit into the process of the evolution of the universe which is at least 13.7 billion years old? What does it intend to reveal? What message does it bring to human beings? For believers, how does it reveal God and how is God revealed in it?

Boff starts with the intuition that all is Mystery and the bearer of Mystery an inexhaustible source of love, that wishes to be known. This Mystery is God known under a thousand names revealed in Christianity as a communion of Divine Persons. He goes on to relate this Mystery to the story of Jesus and the history of Christianity, which takes part in the common mission of other religious and spiritual paths to keep alive the sacred flame of the divine presence in each person, in history, and in the entire cosmic process.

About the Author:

Leonardo Boff, from Brazil, is one of the world s best-known theologians, author of more than sixty books on liberation theology, ecology, and spirituality, including Jesus Christ Liberator, Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor, and (with Mark Hathaway) The Tao of Liberation. In 2001 he received the prestigious Right Livelihood Award.

Review:

"Boff's later focus on Christianity's gentle and loving essence, written with heartfelt and persuasive simiplicity, becomes inspired reading." --Publishers Weekly

• Publisher: Orbis Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1626980306
• ISBN 13: 9781626980303
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144