The original idea for this volume arose from a conference on entangled East-West histories that was held in February 2019 at the SAGAS Department of the University of Florence. Scholars from Chinese, Korean and Japanese universi-ties participated alongside colleagues from Western universities. To comple-ment the revised versions of some of those conference papers, several chapters explo…
The beatitudes of Jesus are the "pithy paradoxes" which lead us to some deep and difficult truths at the heart of his Gospel. All our lives long we must pray over them and wrestle with them to rightly uderstand them and bring them into our real existence as Christian disciples. Fr. Guido, in his own unique style, has tried to give us his humbler beatitudes, in "Low-key imitation of Jesus "teac…