Alberto Manzi: a 'Humanistic' Christianity

Abstract

This essay aims to reconstruct Alberto Manzi's idea of Christian religion. Through his contact with South America, and with priests close to what would become Theology of Liberation, Manzi developed a unique vision of the role of religion in his life and, by extension, in human history. A Christianity that can be defined as humanist, in that it places man, seen as alter Christus, at the centre of its reflection: a perspective that, on the one hand, led Manzi to live his educational activity in Peru and Bolivia with missionary zeal and, on the other, contributed to strengthening in him a sense of social justice and redemption of the peripheries of the world, in South America as in Italy.