Life of Christ
Giuseppe Ricciotti
Unabridged English Translation including 92 footnotes.
An instant best-seller in Italy, Vita di Gesù Cristo ("Life of Jesus Christ") was also highly praised by Catholic peer journals worldwide and has never since been out of print. The author, Giuseppe Ricciotti, was an archaeologist and Biblical scholar. After his seminary studies and completing mandatory military service, he was ordained a priest in 1913 and continued his studies at the University of Rome. During World War I he served as a military chaplain, volunteering for service at the front lines, for which he was later awarded a Silver Medal of Military Valor. After the war, he resumed his studies and graduated in 1919 with a degree in Biblical Studies. During World War II, he took in many refugees at the congregation's Motherhouse the Basilica of St. Peter in Chains.
Excerpt from the Author's Preface:
I have studied the ancient fact and not the modem theory, the solidity of the documents and not the flimsiness of any interpretation presently the fashion. The first vague notion of writing this book came to me many years ago in extraordinary circumstances. I had been carried to a field hospital set up in a wood of fir trees in a valley among the Alps. For some time, I hovered between life and death. And awaiting my fate, it suddenly came to me that if I should live, I might write a life of Christ; his Gospel, in fact, was on the straw mattress beside me. The thought never left me; it became a kind of spiritual necessity. I have studied the ancient fact and not the modem theory, the solidity of the documents and not the flimsiness of any interpretations presently the fashion. I have even dared to imitate the famous "dispassionateness” of the canonical Evangelists, who have neither an exclamation of joy when Jesus is born nor a word of lament when he dies. It has been my intention, then, to write a critical work.
Duration - 23h 29m.
Author - Giuseppe Ricciotti.
Narrator - Maria Isabel Pita.
Published Date - Monday, 01 January 2024.
Copyright - © 1941 Giuseppe Ricciotti ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
Unabridged English Translation including 92 footnotes. An instant best-seller in Italy, Vita di Gesù Cristo ("Life of Jesus Christ") was also highly praised by Catholic peer journals worldwide and has never since been out of print. The author, Giuseppe Ricciotti, was an archaeologist and Biblical scholar. After his seminary studies and completing mandatory military service, he was ordained a priest in 1913 and continued his studies at the University of Rome. During World War I he served as a military chaplain, volunteering for service at the front lines, for which he was later awarded a Silver Medal of Military Valor. After the war, he resumed his studies and graduated in 1919 with a degree in Biblical Studies. During World War II, he took in many refugees at the congregation's Motherhouse the Basilica of St. Peter in Chains. Excerpt from the Author's Preface: I have studied the ancient fact and not the modem theory, the solidity of the documents and not the flimsiness of any interpretation presently the fashion. The first vague notion of writing this book came to me many years ago in extraordinary circumstances. I had been carried to a field hospital set up in a wood of fir trees in a valley among the Alps. For some time, I hovered between life and death. And awaiting my fate, it suddenly came to me that if I should live, I might write a life of Christ; his Gospel, in fact, was on the straw mattress beside me. The thought never left me; it became a kind of spiritual necessity. I have studied the ancient fact and not the modem theory, the solidity of the documents and not the flimsiness of any interpretations presently the fashion. I have even dared to imitate the famous "dispassionateness” of the canonical Evangelists, who have neither an exclamation of joy when Jesus is born nor a word of lament when he dies. It has been my intention, then, to write a critical work. Duration - 23h 29m. Author - Giuseppe Ricciotti. Narrator - Maria Isabel Pita. Published Date - Monday, 01 January 2024. Copyright - © 1941 Giuseppe Ricciotti ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:13
Chapter 1
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Chapter 2
Duration:00:40:54
Chapter 3
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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Chapter 6
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Chapter 7
Duration:00:33:49
Chapter 8
Duration:00:54:49
Chapter 9
Duration:00:40:08
Chapter 10
Duration:00:36:56
Chapter 11
Duration:00:49:16
Chapter 12
Duration:00:45:30
Chapter 13
Duration:00:42:46
Chapter 14
Duration:00:33:27
Chapter 15
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Chapter 16
Duration:00:37:19
Chapter 17
Duration:00:39:02
Chapter 18
Duration:00:27:08
Chapter 19
Duration:00:26:30
Chapter 20
Duration:00:36:16
Chapter 21
Duration:00:30:44
Chapter 22
Duration:00:41:47
Chapter 23
Duration:00:36:48
Chapter 24
Duration:00:32:31
Chapter 25
Duration:00:32:57
Chapter 26
Duration:00:32:23
Chapter 27
Duration:00:49:54
Chapter 28
Duration:00:23:02
Chapter 29
Duration:00:22:42
Chapter 30
Duration:00:26:27
Chapter 31
Duration:00:17:55
Chapter 32
Duration:00:29:01
Chapter 33
Duration:00:30:35
Chapter 34
Duration:00:37:07
Chapter 35
Duration:00:37:52
Chapter 36
Duration:00:52:55
Chapter 37
Duration:00:45:21
Chapter 38
Duration:00:24:14
Ending Credits
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