republish the book of Pastor Theodore Balma
Giorgio Tourn (Reform, February 22, 2011)
The publisher of La Zisa Palermo it must be a reprint of a volume of Theodore Balma, the people of the Bible, history and martyrdom of the Waldensians, published by Corbaccio in 1933, a remake of a previous brochure published by Sonzogno in 1929. The book is an interesting document of the Waldensian journalism during the Fascist era, after the Concordat. The plant is a traditional one, as the text of E. Comba at that time stops at 1848.
The author, Theodore Balma, was then pastor at Catania, where he remained until 1946. Italo Pons in the Introduction, gives a portrait of happy, also inspired the sympathy that comes from having managed the community Catania; versatile personality, born communicator, not by chance that his interest in theater and journalism, held a post in his own little world of Waldensian two decades with its initiatives, including editorial.
may therefore be a matter of interest to re-read these pages at a later date: it is much more, however, analyze this reissue, and the text and pages in Balma Pons, in fact it consists of a foreword by Antonio Di Grado and notes Concluding Maurizio Rizzi, short texts, but full of thought. Let's start with the latter, the publisher has entrusted the task of drafting a sixth chapter, which concludes the text of Balma, reaches the present day. It serves by providing essential data, the assessment of the Waldenses of Torre Pellice is perhaps a little excessive (citizenship honorary Mussolini gave the town of Torre Pellice), however, significant is the fact that our author wonders with participant reflection on today, and he expects the Waldensian Church "knows how to combine the future" City of God "and the future "City of Man", "know how to think" a new means of communication "where instead" has considerable cultural lag 'but know how to think "like the church of the third millennium by taking up issues of global nature," and that is to become "fully Italian '. One can only agree, but how to translate into operational terms this wish? Our thoughts turn to today's political parties, whose statements programmatic rarely fell in the concrete. Even
Grade says, if not spelling out the paradox of faith that evokes rightly pointing out that you do not transplant the values \u200b\u200bof purity, the gospel, in uncleanness of the places, that history, if not in sola fide. What is striking however is the look in the text which reads Catania, and what looms behind her: Sicily's Bonavia, but also Brancati and Sciascia, the sphinx with by those who come "from the clear skies of the Valleys '. And the key operation in Chat - reprint of Balma and lyrics that accompany it - is probably in the perception of a Sicilian valdismo perceived, intuition, dreaming? Its polarity radical than a Nordic valdismo is evident, and it is clear its strong identity and that is why it is fascinating to hypothesize a comparison. And read them in a dialectic, as we do not have in any other region of Italy.
is no accident that in February this Waldensian to print and reprint the history, there are questions about the identity that is in Torre Pellice and Palermo?
Giorgio Tourn (Reform, February 22, 2011)
The publisher of La Zisa Palermo it must be a reprint of a volume of Theodore Balma, the people of the Bible, history and martyrdom of the Waldensians, published by Corbaccio in 1933, a remake of a previous brochure published by Sonzogno in 1929. The book is an interesting document of the Waldensian journalism during the Fascist era, after the Concordat. The plant is a traditional one, as the text of E. Comba at that time stops at 1848.
The author, Theodore Balma, was then pastor at Catania, where he remained until 1946. Italo Pons in the Introduction, gives a portrait of happy, also inspired the sympathy that comes from having managed the community Catania; versatile personality, born communicator, not by chance that his interest in theater and journalism, held a post in his own little world of Waldensian two decades with its initiatives, including editorial.
may therefore be a matter of interest to re-read these pages at a later date: it is much more, however, analyze this reissue, and the text and pages in Balma Pons, in fact it consists of a foreword by Antonio Di Grado and notes Concluding Maurizio Rizzi, short texts, but full of thought. Let's start with the latter, the publisher has entrusted the task of drafting a sixth chapter, which concludes the text of Balma, reaches the present day. It serves by providing essential data, the assessment of the Waldenses of Torre Pellice is perhaps a little excessive (citizenship honorary Mussolini gave the town of Torre Pellice), however, significant is the fact that our author wonders with participant reflection on today, and he expects the Waldensian Church "knows how to combine the future" City of God "and the future "City of Man", "know how to think" a new means of communication "where instead" has considerable cultural lag 'but know how to think "like the church of the third millennium by taking up issues of global nature," and that is to become "fully Italian '. One can only agree, but how to translate into operational terms this wish? Our thoughts turn to today's political parties, whose statements programmatic rarely fell in the concrete. Even
Grade says, if not spelling out the paradox of faith that evokes rightly pointing out that you do not transplant the values \u200b\u200bof purity, the gospel, in uncleanness of the places, that history, if not in sola fide. What is striking however is the look in the text which reads Catania, and what looms behind her: Sicily's Bonavia, but also Brancati and Sciascia, the sphinx with by those who come "from the clear skies of the Valleys '. And the key operation in Chat - reprint of Balma and lyrics that accompany it - is probably in the perception of a Sicilian valdismo perceived, intuition, dreaming? Its polarity radical than a Nordic valdismo is evident, and it is clear its strong identity and that is why it is fascinating to hypothesize a comparison. And read them in a dialectic, as we do not have in any other region of Italy.
is no accident that in February this Waldensian to print and reprint the history, there are questions about the identity that is in Torre Pellice and Palermo?
T. Balma, the people of the Bible. History and martyrdom of the Waldensians, a c. Italo Pons, Preface. Antonio Di Grado, known by Maurizio Rizza, La Zisa, Palermo, 2011, pp. 256, € 16, 00.
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