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Don Bosco History and
Spirit - Arthur J. Lenti
BERKELEY: 7th June 2007 -- Readers would be familiar by now with the first
concrete result of the vast potential output in Salesian Studies by Arthur
Lenti, Don Bosco his Pope and his Bishop. Arthur, who has published
many articles on Salesian topics and Don Bosco in 'Journal of Salesian Studies'
and 'Richerche Storiche Salesiane', spent 20 years teaching Scripture (US) then
came to Berkeley where for the past 32 years he has taught at the Institute of
Salesian Spirituality.
Now a second volume is about to
become available, hopefully after the northern hemisphere summer: Don Bosco,
History and Spirit.
"I call
this survey, Don Bosco, History and Spirit—'History,'
because Don Bosco’s life and work were played out in the context of the fateful
events that created a new religious and political world, and thereby also shaped
his thinking and action; 'Spirit,' because through discernment, interpretation
and acceptance he discovered the meaning of this new world and courageously
responded to its challenges: his vocation. These chapters were born, so to
speak, in the classroom. For the present purpose the material had to undergo
considerable revision and re-writing for greater readability, and a number of
chapters had to be expanded with Appendices".
Of this most recent work in what will be a series of
seven volumes, the author says: The first three volumes in the series survey the
life and times of John Melchior Bosco up to 1864. The next four describe
Don Bosco's life and work in the period following the unification of
Italy. In this setting, Don Bosco, History and Spirit discusses the
institutional developments and organisation of the Salesian Society through the
stages of the approval of the institute and the constitutions by the Holy
See.
The series is being published by LAS, Rome.
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