Biblical Commentaries

An economist reads the Book of Books

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The renunciation of reciprocity

The renunciation of reciprocity

The sign and the flesh/12 - There are words and objectives that speak of the prophetic aspect of the earth By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire 20/02/2022 "Love is considered perfect if it exists on both sides: on the side of judgment and on the opposite side of mercy". The Zohar, n. 201 Chap...
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The true economy of life

The true economy of life

The sign and the flesh/11 - Abundance that is not lost and does not lose us is always a gift, gratuitousness. By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire  13/02/2022 "Like individuals, nations will never do anything if they are not full of themselves, of self-love, of ambition." Giacomo Leopardi The ...
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The penultimate prayer

The penultimate prayer

The sign and the flesh/10 - The beatitude of the sterile womb is weeping over the breaking of the covenant with God. By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire  06/02/2022 "You who hide inside all names. If you were. If you were a mother... If you consoled Like the dog licking her aching new born. I...
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Never worshipers of pedestal 

Never worshipers of pedestal 

The sign and the flesh/9 - Wealth builds arks of salvation and herds of vain imagery. By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire 30/01/2022 "The prophets are not interested in the mysteries of heaven but in the affairs of the market; not in the spiritual realities of the afterlife but in the life of ...
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Our last step of God

Our last step of God

The sign and the flesh/8 - He can forgive, but healing a sick relationship requires reciprocity. by Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire 23/01/22 The Eternal ordered Hosea to marry a woman of past misunderstandings. Suddenly God asked him: «Why don't you follow the example of your teacher Moses, ...
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The land of the not-yet

The land of the not-yet

The sign and the flesh/7 - True prophets are not loved because they destroy homes and offer tents. By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire 16/01/2022 "God is behind everything, but everything hides God" Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, Volume II, 5.4 This chapter of Hosea, one of the best known...
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But injustice is idolatry

But injustice is idolatry

The sign and the flesh/6 – But the false prophets speak of God or ideals and do not know how to defend humanity By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire 09/01/2022. “As important as it is that we share the pain of man today together, it is even more important that we feel where it comes from togeth...
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The essential art of removing

The essential art of removing

The sign and the flesh/5 – The most dangerous enemy of religion is idolatry, not atheism By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire 02/01/2022 "Only with knowledge can we come to a real level of love. Only by experiencing the joy of discovering the unexpected appearance of a flower or the rapid flutt...
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That other half of the verse

That other half of the verse

The sign and the flesh /4 - The prophets see the future of others and of God, but for themselves the only see the present. By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire 19/12/2021 "Money buys pleasure and, at the same time, becomes an expression of shame. As long as money is only considered a means of p...
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As in a game of mirrors

As in a game of mirrors

The sign and the flesh/3 - God speaks through Hosea and reveals the first reciprocity of earth and heaven to us By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire 12/12/2021 "In the marriage of the prophet, the man himself appears to us with the secrets of his blood and soul, a man who, precisely for this re...
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Nothing more, nothing less

Nothing more, nothing less

The sign and the flesh /2 - In true vocations, one is never greater than one's destiny or one's name By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire 05/12/2021 "Life is not simply destiny" Amartya Sen, Identity and Violence The paradoxical names of the children of Hosea reveal something profound in the ...
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Living the quotes of God

Living the quotes of God

The sign and the flesh/1 – We now begin the commentary on the Book of Hosea, the first of the so-called Minor Prophets By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire  28/11/2021 «When I began my commentary on the book of Hosea, now seven years ago, I was convinced that I knew it well enough. Today I thin...
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And the breath became a child

And the breath became a child

Faithfulness and redemption/16 – At the very end of the Book of Ruth, there is a birth. And an unrivaled chorus of women. by Luigino Bruni Published in the Avvenire on 18/07/2021 ""We need to change God to keep him, and for him to keep us." Paolo de Benedetti, Which God? If we look at the world ...
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The other and real name of the father

The other and real name of the father

Faithfulness and redemption/15 – The other and real name of the father by Luigino Bruni Published in the Avvenire il 11/07/2021 "There are those who do not want simple people to read sacred texts. As if Christ taught things so abstruse that they could barely be understood by three or four theolog...