Paul Wynants – Writing the history of a religious teaching institute: guidelines for research, sources and methods (19th and 20th Centuries)
In the framework of such a short introduction, I would like to recall some basic principles, obvious enough to most specialists.
The first half of my presentation will be historiographical: by tracing the way in which a congregation’s past has been perceived over the course of time, I will point out themes for research that seem of interest to me.
Pietro Stella – Lo studio e gli studi su Don Bosco e sul suo pensiero pedagogico-educativo. Problemi e prospettive
Sommario:
- 1. Studi su Don Bosco fuori della cerchia salesiana
- 2. Studi su Don Bosco entro l’ambito salesiano
- 3. Verso un rinnovamento: da una lettura spiritualistica e soprannaturale a una lettura scientifica
Pietro Stella – Francesco di Sales
Voce di Dizionario sulla vita e l’opera di san Francesco di Sales.
Pietro Stella – Le ricerche su don Bosco nel venticinquennio 1960-1985: bilancio, problemi e proposte
È mutato il modo di vedere il fondatore dei salesiani nel grande panorama della storiografia. Sono mutate le forme di conoscenza anche all’interno della congregazione salesiana dopo che attorno al 1960 si sono estinti gli ultimi testimoni diretti della vita del santo. Nel secondo dopoguerra si può dire giunta agli epigoni nella Chiesa l’epoca dominata dalla lettura agiografica e meramente edificante dei santi. Nel campo della storia politica e sociale sono superate, per quanto riguarda l’Italia e il Piemonte, le letture di don Bosco in chiave patriottica, risorgimentale, nazionalistica, idealistica, fascista. Lascia perplessi la mancanza di un qualsiasi cenno a don Bosco e alle sue opere in saggi di storia sociale di Torino e del Piemonte dell’800. Continue reading “Pietro Stella – Le ricerche su don Bosco nel venticinquennio 1960-1985: bilancio, problemi e proposte”
Arthur Lenti – The founding and early expansion of the salesian work in the San Francisco area from Archival Documents, Part II
As in the earlier article, so also in the present one, besides transcribing and translating pertinent archival documents (chiefly letters), I will try to provide an essential historical framework designed to make the sequence intelligible.
John Rasor – The concept of Secularity in salesian documents
This article examines the theological meaning of the term “secularity” in Salesian official documents. It begins with a survey of the meanings of secularity in recent theological dictionaries, then shows how these meanings are present in reflection by the sons of Don Bosco.
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Juan Edmundo Vecchi – Centennial celebration of the salesian presence in the United States of America. Homily in San Francisco, February 2, 1997
For the beginning of our centennial celebration we are gathered together here as a family in the place where the Salesians established their first presence in the United States of America. When we compare our present- day situation with that at the moment of our arrival we find much for which we must be grateful to God.
Luc Van Looy – Bringing Don Bosco into the mainstream. Lecture in San Francisco, February 24, 1997
Congratulations on your hundred years of faithful work with and for Don Bosco, with and for young people and with and for so many good people of this great country, to bring the message of the Lord to the young in their own context.
Eunan McDonnell – Salesian imaging of God’s love without equal
Francis de Sales’ use of imagery is an acknowledgment that reason alone is insufficient to plumb the mysteries of God’s love and certainly, unable to stimulate us to respond to the passionate love of God.
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Anthony Bailey – Salesians and the Internet
As early as 1989 Pope John Paul II alerted the Church to the pastoral possibilities that technology presented to those who had concern for young people.
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