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The night in Gethsemane, on solitude and betrayal, Massimo Recalcati ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

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The night in Gethsemane, on solitude and betrayal, Massimo Recalcati ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references

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non fiction

Main title

The night in Gethsemane

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1139213169

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Massimo Recalcati ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

Sub title

on solitude and betrayal

Summary

Highly regarded philosopher and psychoanalyst, Massimo Recalcati has penned a gripping, erudite meditation on suffering, doubt, betrayal, and the potential for renewal that dwells in our most painful moments. For Recalcati, Jesus's reckoning in the Garden of Gethsemane is at once an instance of human weakness and an encounter with the Divine. It is the story where the Divine and the Human meet most forcefully, first in company, then in solitude, and where agony and doubt mingle with potential rebirth and revitalization. As the Gospels recount, after the Last Supper, Jesus retreated to a small field just outside the city of Jerusalem: Gethsemane, the olive grove. His prayers are interrupted when Judas arrives with a group of armed men, and kisses him, betraying and abandoning him with a kiss. Jesus is forsaken by his friends and, it seems to him in this moment, by his father, his God. His sin, in Recalcati's view, is like Prometheus to have drawn Divine closer to man. The Night in Gethsemane is a revelatory, moving, and inspiring meditation by one of Italy's most important thinkers

Table Of Contents

INTRODUCTION -- THE FAULT OF THE PRIESTS -- A WATERSHED -- THE FALL -- THE TRAUMA OF BETRAYAL -- THE BETRAYAL OF JUDAS -- PETER'S TEARS -- UTTER ABANDONMENT -- JESUS' FIRST PRAYER AND GOD'S SILENCE -- JESUS' SECOND PRAYER -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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