The spirit is poured out in fragility. Theology from the fractures and cracks of our world.

Professor and Director of the Department of Morals and Praxis of Christian Life Javier de la Torre is editor of the new work El espíritu se derrama en la fragilidad. Teología desde las fracturas y grietas de nuestro mundo (Theology from the fractures and cracks of our world), published by Editorial Dykinson (2024, ISBN: 9788410707160).

This work gathers the contributions of Professors of this Department of the Faculty of Theology at Comillas, the table of contents being as follows:

• Prologue. Attentive to fragility, attentive to the spirit(Javier de la Torre).
• The various wounds of the flesh. Depth and greatness of wounded bodies(Javier de la Torre).
• Fragility in culture: the question of identity(Rafael Amo).
• The gaps of inequalities: social vulnerability and the culture of discarding(Sebastián Mora).
• Overcoming the fractures of politics in the horizon of the common good(Julio L. Martínez).
• The vulnerability revealed by migrants: from its tragic to its sapiential character, which invites to a new way of thinking, a new religious depth, a renewed care(José Manuel Aparicio).
• Fragility of nature, human fragility(Jaime Tatay).
• The boundaries of life that unite and separate us(Carmen Massé).
• An "iron ill-health"? Fractures and cracks in the couple and the family(Pablo Guerrero).
• The fractures of the flesh. Emotions and sexuality(Javier de la Torre).
• Alas, who can heal me? On the wound in the mystics(Juan Antonio Marcos).
• Fractures in prayer. Thirst for God and man's thirst for encounter(Javier Cía).
• Vulnerating vulnerability. Consecrated life and ordained priesthood(Eduard López).
• Fractures in the communication of the Catholic Church(Jesús Sánchez).

The summary of the book, below:

There's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in (Leonard Cohen).

"Jesus Christ wants a Church attentive to the good that the Spirit pours out in the midst of fragility" (AL 308). It sounds like just another sentence, but it is not. Are we as a Church attentive to the "good" that Jesus Christ sends us through the Spirit? Are we attentive to that good that is poured out in the midst of the fragility of the lives of so many of the faithful and of the fragility of the Church itself? Why is it so difficult for us to look at and listen to those spaces of fragility, vulnerability and fracture?

This book is the fruit of a research project of a group of theology professors from the Department of Moral Theology and Praxis of the Christian Life of the Faculty of Theology of the Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Madrid) who are concerned with listening "attentively" to those goods that the Spirit pours out on us in the midst of fragility.

What fruit and what good of the Spirit is flourishing in the midst of the cracks and the crumbling? Where is the Spirit moving? What is it saying in the midst of fragility and smallness? Where is it calling us?

This book is a deep listening to the signs of the Spirit in very different areas of fragility: In culture (Rafael Amo), in inequalities (Sebastián Mora), in politics (Julio Martínez), in migrations (José Manuel Aparicio), in ecology and nature (Jaime Tatay), in the family (Pablo Guerrero), in birth and death (Carmen Massé), affectivity and sexuality (Javier de la Torre), prayer (Javier Cía), mysticism (Juan Antonio Marcos), in religious life (Eduard López) and in the media (Jesús Sánchez-Camacho). With these works, we try to discover in the fragile and vulnerable life, light, seeds of the Gospel and whispers of the Spirit for today.

The book can be purchased from the Publisher's website by clicking here.

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