Kerstmis, Pasen, Pinksteren. Ze geven aanleiding tot cadeaus, lekker eten of gewoon een extra dag vrij. Steeds meer verliezen deze speciale momenten hun christelijke verbinding. Maar wat is de oorspronkelijke zin en betekenis van deze christelijke feesten? Een herbronning dringt zich op. De grote kerkvader Augustinus dient daarbij in dit boek als gids. Hij herinnert ons eraan dat deze feesten een meerwaarde bieden ver voorbij de grenzen van consumptie en vermaak.

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This book presents the various Churches and ecclesial communities in the Middle East, focusing on the Assyrian Church of the East, the Oriental Orthodox and the Oriental Catholic Churches, the spiritual heritage of the Coptic, Syriac and Armenian traditions. The Christians in the Middle East can be called a Church of martyrs.

Listening to witnesses of faith in the first centuries, as well as to the martyrs of our time, this book reveals the cruel reality of the ‘forgotten genocides’ at th...

Augustine has put an important mark on later Christian thinking. Moreover, he composed a lot of writings: more than eight hundred sermons, some three hundred letters, and a hundred works in which he unfolds his theological vision.

This book presents some basic thoughts on the spirituality of this great church father. In different ways the author clarifies in which sense the spirituality of Augustine can be a breath of fresh air for our times. The conversion experience that Augustine went thro...