Il Vangelo di Giovanni

Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner #CW 103

by Rudolf Steiner

Cos" lÕintroduzione del Vangelo di Giovanni diventata qualcosa di molto difficile per i teologi, tinti di materialismo. La dottrina del Logos o del Verbo ha recato grandi difficolt^ alla gente. Essi ÇCi piacerebbe che tutto fosse semplice e ingenuo. Ed ecco questo Vangelo di Giovanni che viene a parlarci di cose filosofiche cos" alte, del Logos, della Vita, della Luce!È Le prime parole del Vangelo di Giovanni penetrano veramente subito nei pi profondi misteri del mondo. Queste si vede, se lasciamo che le verit^ della scienza dello Spirito, che di esse costituiscono la base, si affaccino allÕanima nostra; e dovremo attingere profondamente alla conoscenza spirituale, se vogliamo che queste prime parole del Vangelo si rivelino a noi nella loro giusta luce.

Genres: Nonfiction, Religion

136 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1908

About the author

Author also wrote under the name Rudolph Steiner.

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Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy. His teachings are influenced by Christian Gnosticism or neognosticism. Many of his ideas are pseudoscientific. He was also prone to pseudohistory.
In the first, more philosophically oriented phase of this movement, Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and spirituality. His philosophical work of these years, which he termed "spiritual science", sought to apply what he saw as the clarity of thinking characteristic of Western philosophy to spiritual questions,  differentiating this approach from what he considered to be vaguer approaches to mysticism. In a second phase, beginning around 1907, he began working collaboratively in a variety of artistic media, including drama, dance and architecture, culminating in the building of the Goetheanum, a cultural centre to house all the arts. In the third phase of his work, beginning after World War I, Steiner worked on various ostensibly applied projects, including Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, and anthroposophical medicine.
Steiner advocated a form of ethical individualism, to which he later brought a more explicitly spiritual approach. He based his epistemology on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's world view in which "thinking…is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas." A consistent thread that runs through his work is the goal of demonstrating that there are no limits to human knowledge.

Reviews

[Roger Buck]

For reasons indicated here: http://corjesusacratissimum.org/2011/... ...

I do not even want to rate this book. My views on Steiner are so complex and so likely to be misunderstood that I would rather not reduce them to soundbites.

I simply want to say I have read this book and that whilst Steiner served to free me from Eastern Theosophy and the New Age scene I found at Findhorn, Valentin Tomberg, in turn, provided me with a very different hermeneutic with which to engage Steiner.

I hope the above link however can contribute a little to the tangled issues involving Steiner and Tomberg - and why I believe this "very different hermeneutic" is necessary for a world plunging into a cold-as-steel mechanised society ...

[Evan Ziegenfus]

duh

[Joseph · Rating 5 out of 5]

A interpetation of the gospel by steiner . i found this in a used book store in vancouver i felt changed after reading it.