Volume 7 - Fall 2025/2026

Table of contents

• Editor’s letter ↓

Essays

• Savonarola: Democracy, Tyranny, Prophecy. Conference about Girolamo Savonarola. Pistoia, 23/24 May 1997 by Ivan Illich ↓
• Beneath Savonarola’s Nose: Ivan Illich’s Prophetic Gaze against the Shadow of the Future by Leonardo Christopher Eck Glenewinkel ↓
• Freed from Religion? by Samuel Sonderhoff ↓
• The Way of Sense through Religion, Faith, Philosophy by Giovanna Morelli ↓
• Theology's Heartbeat by Wes Avram ↓
• When the Last Becomes the First: Ivan Illich and Saint Paul by Neto Leão ↓
• On Surprise and the Indirectness of the Theological in the Work of Ivan Illich by Simon Ravenscroft ↓
• Gratuitous Relation: Illich and the Play of Religion, Money, and Gift by Oscar Krüger ↓
• Artifact and Memory by Guest Artist George Rembrandt Gutlich ↓
• Between the Vernacular and Surprise by Tobais Roberts ↓
• The Barefoot Prophet: Ivan Illich's Forgotten Warnings for Our Times by John Kurien ↓

Comments / Responses

• L’ambiguïté d’être des fils d’une mère indigne, mais pas de nous by Jose Antonio Ullate ↓
• Children of the Visible and Unfaithful Mother by Renee Uribe ↓

Translations

• Sobre experiência estética e experiência religiosa by Ivan Illich ↓

Editorial note

In June 2025, a group of about fifty gathered at the San Cerbone convent in Lucca, Italy, to discuss if religion, faith, and philosophy name conflicting ways of life. Some knew Illich personally, others only by hearsay. Some knew one another well; others had never met. This mix generat- ed an openness to strangers and the unfamiliar. Meals were shared at long tables in the refectory. Discussions began in the garden outside the convent walls and continued among smaller groups inside. Continue reading >