Ernesto Buonaiuti (1881–1946), priest The Eranos Conference of August and historian of , joined 7–15, 1939 was dedicated to the topic, the Eranos Conferences since their “The Symbolism of Rebirth in Reli- beginnings (1933) and gave a total of Ernesto Buonaiuti gious Representations of Various Epo- nine talks, published in the Eranos- chs and Places.” Ernesto Buonaiuti Jahrbücher from 1933 up to 1940. held a lecture entitled “Palingenesis,

Buonaiuti had been excommunicated Ernesto Buonaiuti Immortality, and Resurrection in Pri- and suspended a divinis by the PALINGENESIS, IMMORTALITY, mitive Christianity,” which was publi- because of his modernist positions. shed in German in that year’s Eranos- In 1926, he was forced to give up tea- AND RESURRECTION Jahrbuch. This volume is presenting ching the at the for the first time the 26 typescript pages University of . He definitely lost IN PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY with handwritten notes that he read in this position in 1931 because he, along Italian at Eranos on August 12, 1939. with eleven other professors, refused to His paper includes several topics that swear oaths of loyalty to Fascism. The Edited by underpin successive reflections at Era- Eranos Conferences gave people who nos about spiritual issues. There is a had been forced out of university tea- Adriano Fabris view of Christianity that is considered ching positions politically the chance in its continuity with other to appear on an international stage. So, and at the same time in its uniqueness as for many other scholars, Eranos was and specificity. There is the comparison an important opportunity for Buona- and contrast that he makes between the iuti to have others listen to his voice “institutional” dimension of Christia- within the framework of an open and nity and a life in that is more unprejudiced international face-to-face “liberal” and “authentic,” where the as well as to test himself out only with essence of Christianity can be found the power of reason. again. And there is the question of the meaning of historical research: Buo- Adriano Fabris is Full Professor of naiuti did not limit himself to erudite

Moral Philosophy at the University of IN PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY discourse; rather, he delves into the spi- Pisa, . At the Theological Faculty ritual circumstances of the contempo- of Lugano, Switzerland, he directs the rary individual. Religion and Research Insti- tute (ReTe). PALINGENESIS, IMMORTALITY, AND RESURRECTION IMMORTALITY, PALINGENESIS, Fabio Merlini serves as the President of the Eranos Foundation.

Riccardo Bernardini serves as the Scientific Secretary of the Eranos Foundation.

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