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The Pope is first of all the pastor of the Church and sign of its unity. He can be a theologian professionally, or he cannot be, as it has happened for the majority of popes. ln both cases, in his teaching as well as in the choices he makes or in the orientations he offers, his teaching and his style are imbued with a theological perspective and ask theologians to confront with them.The collection "Pope Francis' Theology", calling upon the expertise of eleven theologians from various Countries of the world, aims at showing us what theology is at the base of such incisive words and such simple gestures with which Pope Francis has made us so familiar.They are eleven easy volumes, written in a captivating way yet able to show in a rigorous way the deep roots of his thought and action.Kerygma and Prophecy tries to trace the terms of the magisterium of Pope Francis that contain a sort of real "biblical theology", that is a vision of God and of man starting from Scripture. Indeed, his teaching is expressed in an authoritative way in the documents that in daily homilies, is due to one of the fundamental dimensions of the biblical theology, the kerygmatic one

'Are we there yet?' How many times have we heard this plaintive query - usually from the back seat of hte family car! This time, however, in How Good is the Golden Rule? (more a joyfulexclamation than a question!), the query comes toward the end fo a long journey whose destination isnone other than paradise. The well-known 'do to others as you would have them do to you', endorsed by Jesus, is the map to Paradise in the author's view. This Golden Rule is, as he put it, 'a universal divine command which provides the ethical foundation for all relationships and human aspiration.' Warren Mills brings seven decades of a personal faith journey to the task of proving his claim in an engaging, indeed inspiring way. The Golden Rule, while naturally based, becomes a gateway to God:: 'we learn about our relationship to God as an extension of our relationship with each other which is htebasis of all human satisfaction and hope.'

Carl Sandburg, US poet and Pulitzer Prize winner, writes: 'Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away'. That is both true and false. Poetry is in one form an engagement with the Invisible, seeking to give it tangible expression. It is also a recognition of the hard facts of life; at once an act of disclosure, a reaching out in empathy, a sketching of a map pointing to our place in the scheme of things.There is no guarantee that poetry will make sense. Why should it? It can, however, communicate our human condition even if it evades our understanding. 'There is poetry', John Cage wrote, 'as soon as we recognise we possess nothing'. Poetry is necessary food that sustains us through time, through a journey of dispossession and discovery.The poems in Turning in Time invite a dialogue that seeks to push aside surface debris to capture hidden depths in our daily experience. A turn away from the obvious in order to advance reasons to look ahead hopefully. A quest to identify a source of light that can lead us on.To be a poet is to be a pilgrim sharing food with fellow travellers. It is always good to share a meal together.Religious/non-religious. Sacred/profane. Formal/free. Mythic/grounded. Spiritual/practical. All, and none, apply. Denham Grierson's collection will not allow us the easy tricks of made-up taxonomies. The collection just is what it is. And it will not submit to easy characterisations like 'from the heart', or 'rooted in mystery', or 'grounded in experience'. Again, all and none apply. There is work to be done here; no longer by the poet, but by the reader. The poem gains meaning and lives only through the reader's gaze, and the reader's engagement. Then, and only then, is the poem truly happening.From the Foreword by Karel Reus