The book by Brother Adalberto Maynardi, a Benedictine monk of the monastery of Bose (Italy), is devoted to the issue of dialogue between the Church and the secular world, as well as dialogue between Christian denominations. The author examines specific situations of intercultural influence and parallelism in areas such as hagiography and biblical exegesis, and examines key categories of Christian culture: time, holiday, holiness, hope, comparing their role in different traditions. Of particular interest are studies of the culture of the Church in the New Age. They show an unexpected agreement between the ideals of the Enlightenment and the Christian worldview from which they essentially grew.
The book by Brother Adalberto Maynardi, a Benedictine monk of the monastery of Bose (Italy), is devoted to the issue of dialogue between the Church and the secular world, as well as dialogue between Christian denominations. The author examines specific situations of intercultural influence and parallelism in areas such as hagiography and biblical exegesis, and examines key categories of Christian culture: time, celebration, holiness, hope, comparing their role in different traditions. Of particular interest are studies of the culture of the Church in the New Age. They discover an unexpected harmony between the ideals of the Enlightenment and the Christian worldview from which they essentially grew.