Gospel, figures and symbols offer with rigor and clarity to the public the keys of interpretation of the conceptual and symbolic universe in which the gospels were born, investigating their historical background and revealing their intrinsic theological meaning. Reading the Gospels implies making an effort of understanding in order to distinguish between the true message of the evangelists and the literary envelope with which they formulated it. The great flaw and great danger of the naive reading of the Gospel is that many times its authentic meaning is not captured and content is considered to be nothing more than a literary covering. The subject is complex and, at times, difficult to explain in a simple way: the reading that emerges from a theological interpretation of the Gospel narratives is often distant from the apparently obvious one to which one is accustomed. In this sense, ...read more
