For several years Marco Beck, a former media executive, Latin scholar, poet, essayist, reflects on men and books belonging to the head-on confrontation with the person and message of Jesus, the background of the Word of God in the bundle of ' entire Scripture. "Ready to give reason for the hope that is in him," in its reconnaissance Beck tends to favor, for physiological similarities of thought, the authors and the works that best approximates, at least as voltage, the pole of faith: a faith not theorized in the abstract, but it fell through the filter of literature nell'incandescente concreteness of life. Up to identify literature with life itself, in tune with the illuminating lesson Carlo Bo.
By applying a method you could probably characterize as "critical spirit", Beck has engaged in his work the two fundamental coordinates married by John Paul II in the encyclical Fides et ratio. With this combination in my mind and heart, he has published articles, essays and reviews in newspapers and magazines; He has participated in conferences on "border" between Christianity and secularism; promoted books and writers of recognized or unrecognized value through prefaces and introductions. Selective compendium of her passionate commitment to culture are the texts collected and harmonized in this book under the title The hands and evenings, alluding to a verse from Ecclesiastes: "In the morning sow your seed / and in the evening do not give rest to your hands. ... "

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