Monday, January 3, 2022, there will be a new appointment with the literary review "Meetings under the tree",organized by the library Giunti al Punto di Asiago.
Eraldo Affinati will present to the public his book "The Gospel of theAngels".
The meeting will be held at the Palasport Auditorium di Gallio at 17.00.
BOOK "THE GOSPEL OF THE ANGELS" by Eraldo Affinati - HarperCollins
In a fortress in the high heavens the angels of the Royal Guard,warriors of the spirit, blue soldiers with jackets and shoes, fanatics of exclusive missions, are gathered waiting for the next assignment. The call arrives, the chosen one is Gabriel,who will have to make thecovenant between God and menshine anead again, announcing the arrival of theSon.
Thus began the great rewriting of the Gospels by Eraldo Affinati,one of the main Italian authors who, since his Tolstoyanian debut, has chosen to believe in education by dedicating his energies to the most difficult students and unaccompanied minors, the young migrants he often called "the barbiana boys of today", with reference to the community founded by Don Lorenzo Milani.
In this book of full expressive maturity he invites us to return to Jesus, teacher and prophet,with new eyes. The journey of the writer, humbly aware and yet able to open suggestive fantastic and narrative spaces, starts from the sources, Luke and John above all, but also the Acts of the Apostles, and remains faithful to the sources, while transfiguring them intoan absolutely original work where we will find, against the background of the extraordinary Palestinian landscape, all the episodes of the sacred text , from birth to crucifixion and beyond, filtered by the sensitivity of the author, at the same time fascinated and involved.
What does it mean to have faith? What sense to attribute to human evil? What use can we make of our freedom? Why is earthly justice not enough for us? How should we exercise the responsibility we feel toward others? These ancient questions, which have always nourished the ethical and civil inspiration of Eraldo Affinati, this time are measured by Christ's love forus,relaunching, for believers and non-believers, the imperishable strength of his message.
