دانلود کتاب نمادهای خورشیدی مسیحی و عیسی خورشید عدالت

The present work started with a remark about Muslims. I mentioned how impressive it was to see Muslims lay down their mats and pray facing Mecca in Abidjan airport in West Africa. A confrere replied that if early Christians came to earth today, they might well make the initial mistake of identifying Muslims as their coreligionists, since early Christians prostrated themselves and faced eastwards when they prayed. I started exploring what seemed a potent symbol, collecting related ideas such as Christ returning from the east, and the eastern location of the garden of Eden, only to discover that a list of such related ideas was drawn up by St John Damascene in the eighth century, and was readily available on Eastern Orthodox websites.1 It also became clear that Christian sun symbolism has deeper roots in the Bible and in tradition than orientation to the east, and yet solar motifs hardly figure in recent Catholic theology and spirituality. Then, at the conclave where he was elected pope, Francis declared that the church had forgotten the patristic symbol of a lunar church that receives its light from the sun.2 I could find no general book on Christ and the light of the sun. Hence this work.