Enzo Fortunato

WHAT IF JESUS CAME BACK?

The Question at the Heart of Christianity

1st edition October 2021
Series DIMENSIONI DELLO SPIRITO
Size 14 x 21 cm

Also available in eBook format

Number of pages 128
CDU 22H 459
ISBN/EAN 9788892226401

What if Jesus returned today? Here is the question that Fr. Fortunato asked himself. It is a question at the heart of Christianity, of our lives, love, action. The volume offers a deep reflection to the heart of Christianity and human beings, through history and literature. What can we learn from the way great authors imagine the return of Christ to earth? Flaiano, Tolstoj, Dostoesvkij, Bonhoeffer, Carlo Bo… these and other ones tell us, each in their own way, that despite all appearances to the contrary, despite all the irony and the demystifications, the evangelical truth keeps for us all its strength and relevance. When Christ knocks on our doors (and this happens much more often than we think), we just let Jesus’ name enter our homes and leave out his truths: patience, forgiveness, love. After all, it is only love that collects and summarizes them all. A path to a new Christian spirituality in the company of great authors.

Fr. Enzo Fortunato is a Friar Minor Conventual, a journalist and director of the press room of the Sacred Convent of Assisi. He collaborates with various newspapers, including the Catholic daily newspaper Avvenire, Huffington Post, Corriere della Sera, and Panorama. Since 2011 he has been conducting a radio program, On the road with the Pope, an international press review. For Edizioni San Paolo he has written Assisi Charta (2019); Francis and the Sultan. 800 Years Since an Incredible Encounter (2019) together with Piero Damosso; Francis’ Christmas. Seven Meditations Following the O Antiphons (2019).

Selling Points

• An unprecedented look at Jesus.
• Captivating and profound texts.
• A spiritual proposal for our times.