Abraham Skorka

A thoughtful guide to help anyone explore coping, healing, and beginning again in a world changed by the pandemic. "COVID-19 put us all in crisis, and you don’t get out of a crisis alone: either we all get out together or we don’t get out." --Pope Francis "Rabbi Skorka wrings from our texts lessons about the pandemic, the Jewish future, and the fractured souls that we bear through this accelerated modern world." --Rabbi David Wolpe Rabbi Abraham Skorka, co-author with Pope Francis of the international bestseller, On Heaven and Earth, guides us through a careful selection of Jewish resources to help us understand what the pandemic has meant to us as human beings. A special message from Pope Francis demonstrates the universal reach of the book’s topics and passages, and a foreword by Rabbi David Wolpe, calls out our need for an interpreter of Rabbi Skorka’s skill and experience to help all of us make meaning of what we have been through and how we can move forward.

New York Times Bestseller From the man who became Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio shares his thoughts on religion, reason, and the challenges the world faces in the 21st century with Abraham Skorka, a rabbi and biophysicist. For years Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Argentina, and Rabbi Abraham Skorka were tenacious promoters of interreligious dialogues on faith and reason. They both sought to build bridges among Catholicism, Judaism, and the world at large. On Heaven and Earth, originally published in Argentina in 2010, brings together a series of these conversations where both men talked about various theological and worldly issues, including God, fundamentalism, atheism, abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia, same-sex marriage, and globalization. From these personal and accessible talks comes a first-hand view of the man who would become pope to 1.2 billion Catholics around the world in March 2013.

Taivaasta ja maasta on avoin ja laaja vuoropuhelu arkkipiispa Jorge Mario Bergoglion - nykyisen paavi Franciscuksen - ja rabbi Abraham Skorkan välillä. Kirjaan kootuissa keskusteluissa he jakavat ajatuksiaan uskonnosta, järjestä ja ihmiskunnan haasteista uuden vuosituhannen alussa. Vuosien ajan Bergoglio ja Skorka edistivät kotikaupungissaan Buenos Airesissa keskustelua uskon ja järjen suhteesta. He toimivat sillanrakentajina katolisuuden, juutalaisuuden ja oikeastaan koko maailman välillä etsiessään omasta uskostaan ja elämänkokemuksestaan käsin vastauksia moniin nykyajan haasteisiin. Kirjan tekstit antavat monipuolisen käsityksen katolisesta ja juutalaisesta maailmankuvasta ja aivan erityisesti miehestä, joka keväällä 2013 valittiin paimentamaan maailman 1,2 miljardia katolilaista.