Cristianità

Che cosa sappiamo effettivamente di Gesù? La domanda riceve, da sempre, molte risposte. Non a motivo delle fonti - ce ne sono di canoniche e di apocrife, oltre a un numero limitato di documenti non cristiani - ma a causa della loro interpretazione. Il volume si confronta con tre fondamentali approcci alla figura di Gesù: ecclesiale, storico, letterario. Attraverso questa polifonia di voci - insita già negli stessi vangeli di Matteo, Marco, Luca e Giovanni - si ripercorrono le parole e le opere di una figura unica, che ha inciso in modo profondo e duraturo sulle vicende del mondo.

Il segno della croce tracciato da destra a sinistra, semplice gesto quotidiano per il cristiano ortodosso, può destare in noi curiosità, ma può suscitare anche un senso di disarmonia e di estraneità, dovuto forse alla scarsa conoscenza di quella che può essere a giusto titolo considerata l'altra faccia del cristianesimo.

Oggi i protestanti, con cattolici e ortodossi, costituiscono una delle tre grandi componenti del cristianesimo mondiale, eppure sono una realtà poco conosciuta dagli italiani. Il ricco pluralismo interno che fin dalle origini caratterizza il mondo protestante spesso disorienta chi lo osserva con occhi cattolici. Luterani, chiese riformate, anglicani, metodisti, battisti, pentecostali... che cosa hanno in comune e che cosa li distingue?

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