The Gospel of Jesus Christ, Volume I Silone reads: “The past and the

reads: “The past and the present are our means

from which the very web of existence is woven

making it wonderfully clear that in God alone does mankind discover who he really is—the very image of the God who is Love

he moved as an infant to Germany

capturing its passionate tensions and its high tragedy with discretion

The Gospel of Jesus Christ, Volume I Silone reads: “The past and theBy M. J. Lagrange, O. P. When the Modernism crisis at the end of the nineteenth century threatened to lay an axe to the root of Catholic scholarship, Pope Leo XIII responded unflinchingly. The Church, he wrote, has nothing to fear from truth. Encouraging the growth and expansion of Catholic intellectual life, Leo XIII called in particular for the revitalization of biblical exegesis to oppose rationalist misinterpretations of Scripture. As an answer to