Explorations and reflections on metaphysics, its fundamental questions, and its impact on philosophical thought and the understanding of reality.
To begin this essay, I needed to draw on a few concepts and authors, attempting to bring this context closer to the human drama. Thus, my aim here is not to produce a theological essay but, as a novelist, to assess the text of the Gospel of Matthew 19 and from there try to approach the drama suffered by the rich young man upon receiving Christ’s words.
The concrete gestures of Christ—touching, breathing, anointing, mixing clay, washing and blessing—are not mere pious stagings. They reveal a profound theology rooted in the very structure of reality and in the history of salvation. In God made man, invisible grace is communicated by visible means, and the sensible world becomes a pathway to the divine.
Among the many scenes the Gospels have bequeathed to us, Luke 7:36–50 offers a beautiful and profound reflection on Jesus’ passage through this world and his way of teaching. There we find Jesus, a guest in the house of a Pharisee, being surprised by the entrance of a woman identified only as a sinner of the city.
The account of the wedding at Cana (Jn 2:1–11), in which Jesus turns water into wine, is not merely the record of Christ’s first miracle, but the inauguration of a new stage in the history of salvation.
The Will of Christ in the Light of Philosophy and Theology. An essay of reflection on Book III of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics.
Essay based on Chapters 1 and 2 of De Genesi ad litteram by Saint Augustine. Ideal for a better understanding of the theme of creation, in accordance with the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
At the heart of philosophical and theological reflection lies a question as simple as it is decisive: what is something in its essence?
Difficulties bring down the weak but strengthen the strong. In the Gospel of Luke, chapter 24, we see the disciples on the road to Emmaus returning to their former lives, trapped in their weaknesses and disappointments.
Perhaps you’ve never realised it, but temptations, when they occur, strike against your purposes, your faithfulness, or your vocations.
