1999

saber cuidar

Saber Cuidar. Ética do humano - compaixão pela terra
Petrópolis, Vozes

- The essence of the human being lies in the care, which establishes a minimum ethics that preserves life, social relations and preservation of nature.
etica da vida

Ética da Vida.

- Life is the biggest budding of the evolution process. Because of consumerism modern societies threaten the system of life, hence the urgency of an ethics of life.
a oracao de sao francisco

The Prayer of Saint Francis, a message of peace for the world today
New York, Orbis; Bristol, Alban.

- A spiritual and analytic comment of the famous prayer attributed to Saint Francis: “Lord, make me a channel of your peace”.

1998

o despertar da aguia

O despertar da Águia: o dia-bólico e o sim-bólico na construção da realidade
Petrópolis, Vozes.

- Suite of “The eagle and the hen”, applying the metaphor to the logic of the universe, society and human life.

  Das Prinzip Mitgefühl.Texte für eine bessere Zukunft, Freiburg, Herder.
- The sympathy principle. Text for a better future.

1997

a aguia e a galinha

A Águia e a Galinha: uma metáfora da condição humana
Petrópolis, Vozes.

- The eagle growing up between hens until looking like a hen, and then becoming an eagle again, serves as metaphor to rethink human condition on its imanence and transcendence.

o espirito na saude

Espírito na saúde
(with Jean-Yves Leloup, Pierre Weil y Roberto Crema). Petrópolis, Vozes.

- An integrated vision of illness and health, shows the therapeutical potentialities of the Spirit, the principle of divine and human life.

terapeutas do deserto

Os terapeutas do deserto. De Filon de Alexandria e Francisco de Assis a Graf Dürckheim
(with Jean-Yves Leloup). Petrópolis, Vozes.

- The spirituals ways of yesterday and today are revealed as cures and integration ways. Here it’s specially shown the way of Saint Francis of Assisi as deeply humanising and healing.

1996

a teologia da libertacao

A Teologia da Libertação: balanços e perspectivas.
(with José Ramos Regidor y Clodovis Boff) São Paulo, Atica.

- A meticulous balance of the Liberation Theology in its several tendencies after 25 years of existence and irradiation.
brasa sob cinzas

 

Brasa sob cinzas
Rio de Janeiro, Ed. Record.

- The daily facts open the space to emerge the basic structure of the human being: essential tenderness and care.