Roland Meynet, a French Jesuit, is presently professor of Biblical theology at the Papal Gregorian University in Rome and was the former director of its Department of Biblical Theology. He is a founding member and currently the secretary of the International Society for the Studies of Biblical and Semitic Rhetoric in Rome and is one of the most important and renowned promoters of the rhetorical method as it applies to Biblical and Semitic texts. His numerous books and academic articles have con...
According to N. T. Wright, many believers, if confronted with the question of where they will go when they die, would give the wrong answer. The correct answer is not heaven. In this book, award-winning author N. T. Wright addresses hope for the future and how it is deeply related to how we live today. He asserts that Christianity´s most distinctive idea is the bodily resurrection of Jesus, and he shows how our own hope for the future li...
Letter from the Editor
The Good News of Christmas
What is Christmas? Ornaments, parties, gifts, food, chants, and encounters…? Christmas indeed seems to be a special occasion of celebration for much of humanity, even for those who do not believe. For many it is the time of the year when good cheer and special acts of kindness abound. But isn’t there a deeper significance to Christmas than warm feelings and festive celebrations? We all know about Christmas, but do we not also believe that what happened on that holy night transformed the story of humankind as well as our own personal story?
For believers, Christmas is a night of liberation in which the Word was made flesh in order to offer hope to us in our downtrodden and oppressive reality, just as it was a night of liberation for the people of Israel when they escaped their slavery in Egypt. It is significant that the Word enfleshed came to liberate at night, because night reveals and sustains its mystery when it joins together the infinite and t...
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