austraLasia #1868

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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