republish the book of Pastor Theodore Balma
Giorgio Tourn (Reform, February 22, 2011)
La Zisa in Palermo The publisher is responsible for the reprint of a volume of Theodore Balma, the people of the Bible, history and martyrdom of the Waldensians, published by Corbaccio in 1933, a remake of a previous brochure published by Sonzogno in 1929. The volume is an interesting document of the Waldensian journalism during the Fascist era, after the Concordat. The plant is a traditional one, as the text of E. Comba at that time stops at 1848.
The author, Theodore Balma, was then pastor at Catania, where he remained until 1946. Italo Pons in the Introduction, gives a portrait of happy, also inspired the sympathy that comes from having managed the community Catania; versatile personality, born communicator, not by chance that his interest in theater and journalism, occupied a place of his own in Waldensian little world of two decades with its initiatives, including editorial.
may therefore be a matter of interest to re-read these pages at a distance of time: it is much more, however, analyze this reissue, and the text and pages in Balma Pons, in fact it consists of a foreword by Antonio Di Grado and concluding remarks by Maurizio Rizzi, short texts, but full of thought. Let's start with the latter, the publisher has entrusted the task of drafting a sixth chapter, which concludes the text of Balma, reaches the present day. It serves by providing essential data, the assessment of the Waldenses of Torre Pellice is perhaps a little too much (the honorary citizenship to Mussolini gave the town of Torre Pellice), however, significant is the fact that our author wonders with participant reflection on ' Today, he expects the Waldensian Church "Able to combine the future" City of God "and the forthcoming" City of Man "," know how to think 'a new means of communication' where instead "has considerable cultural lag 'but know how to think" like the church of the third millennium by assuming problems of global nature, "and that is to become" fully Italian. " One can only agree, but how to translate into operational terms this wish? Our thoughts turn to political parties today, programmatic statements which are rarely fell in the concrete. Even
Grade says, if not spelling out the paradox of faith that evokes rightly pointing out that you do not transplant the values \u200b\u200bof purity, the gospel, nell’impurità dei luoghi, cioè nella storia, se non nel sola fide. Ciò che colpisce però nel testo è lo sguardo con cui legge Catania, e ciò che si profila dietro di lei: la Sicilia di Bonavia, ma anche di Brancati e Sciascia, la sfinge con cui si misurano coloro che giungono «dai cieli limpidi delle Valli». E la chiave dell’operazione di cui discorriamo – la ristampa di Balma e i testi che l’accompagnano – sta probabilmente nella percezione di un valdismo siciliano, percepito, intuito, sognato? La sua polarità radicale rispetto a un valdismo nordico è evidente, ed è evidente una sua identità forte; proprio per questo è affascinante ipotizzare un confronto. E leggerli in una dialettica, come non si ha in nessuna altra regione d’Italia.
È casuale che in questo febbraio valdese si stampi e ristampi storia, ci si interroghi cioè sull’identità a Torre Pellice e Palermo?
Giorgio Tourn (Reform, February 22, 2011)
La Zisa in Palermo The publisher is responsible for the reprint of a volume of Theodore Balma, the people of the Bible, history and martyrdom of the Waldensians, published by Corbaccio in 1933, a remake of a previous brochure published by Sonzogno in 1929. The volume is an interesting document of the Waldensian journalism during the Fascist era, after the Concordat. The plant is a traditional one, as the text of E. Comba at that time stops at 1848.
The author, Theodore Balma, was then pastor at Catania, where he remained until 1946. Italo Pons in the Introduction, gives a portrait of happy, also inspired the sympathy that comes from having managed the community Catania; versatile personality, born communicator, not by chance that his interest in theater and journalism, occupied a place of his own in Waldensian little world of two decades with its initiatives, including editorial.
may therefore be a matter of interest to re-read these pages at a distance of time: it is much more, however, analyze this reissue, and the text and pages in Balma Pons, in fact it consists of a foreword by Antonio Di Grado and concluding remarks by Maurizio Rizzi, short texts, but full of thought. Let's start with the latter, the publisher has entrusted the task of drafting a sixth chapter, which concludes the text of Balma, reaches the present day. It serves by providing essential data, the assessment of the Waldenses of Torre Pellice is perhaps a little too much (the honorary citizenship to Mussolini gave the town of Torre Pellice), however, significant is the fact that our author wonders with participant reflection on ' Today, he expects the Waldensian Church "Able to combine the future" City of God "and the forthcoming" City of Man "," know how to think 'a new means of communication' where instead "has considerable cultural lag 'but know how to think" like the church of the third millennium by assuming problems of global nature, "and that is to become" fully Italian. " One can only agree, but how to translate into operational terms this wish? Our thoughts turn to political parties today, programmatic statements which are rarely fell in the concrete. Even
Grade says, if not spelling out the paradox of faith that evokes rightly pointing out that you do not transplant the values \u200b\u200bof purity, the gospel, nell’impurità dei luoghi, cioè nella storia, se non nel sola fide. Ciò che colpisce però nel testo è lo sguardo con cui legge Catania, e ciò che si profila dietro di lei: la Sicilia di Bonavia, ma anche di Brancati e Sciascia, la sfinge con cui si misurano coloro che giungono «dai cieli limpidi delle Valli». E la chiave dell’operazione di cui discorriamo – la ristampa di Balma e i testi che l’accompagnano – sta probabilmente nella percezione di un valdismo siciliano, percepito, intuito, sognato? La sua polarità radicale rispetto a un valdismo nordico è evidente, ed è evidente una sua identità forte; proprio per questo è affascinante ipotizzare un confronto. E leggerli in una dialettica, come non si ha in nessuna altra regione d’Italia.
È casuale che in questo febbraio valdese si stampi e ristampi storia, ci si interroghi cioè sull’identità a Torre Pellice e Palermo?
T. Balma, Il popolo della Bibbia. Storia e martirio dei Valdesi, a c. di Italo Pons, prefaz. di Antonio Di Grado, nota di Maurizio Rizza, La Zisa, Palermo, 2011, pp. 256, euro 16, 00.
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