The first edition of this book was published in 1978 and a new Spanish edition in 1989. When the first edition appeared, Professor A. Martin suggested that an English translation would meet with interest. Together with Professor A. S. Wightman, he tried to convince an American publisher to translate the book. Financial problems made this impossible. Later on, Professors E. H. Lieb and W. Thirring proposed to entrust Springer-Verlag with the translation of our book, and Professor W. BeiglbOck accepted the plan. We are deeply grateful to all of them, since without their interest and enthusiasm this book would not have been translated. In the twelve years that have passed since the first edition was published, beautiful experiments confirming some of the basic principles of quantum me chanics have been carried out, and the theory has been enriched with new, im portant developments. Due reference to all of this has been paid in this English edition, which implies that modifications have been made to several parts of the book. Instances of these modifications are, on the one hand, the neutron interfer ometry experiments on wave-particle duality and the 211" rotation for fermions, and the crucial experiments of Aspect et al. with laser technology on Bell's inequalities, and, on the other hand, some recent results on level ordering in central potentials, new techniques in the analysis of anharmonic oscillators, and perturbative expansions for the Stark and Zeeman effects.
...and shall call his name Jesus is a book based on the life and work of Jesus according to the writings of Luke's gospel. The Gospel according to Luke offers the western reader a more contextualized perspective of the teaching of Jesus of Nazareth; it is a unique vision, different from the Jewish interpretation of the other gospels that present Jesus more as a regional Messiah than as the one God has sent for reconciliation for all humanity. Not to be separated from the others, because it was never that purpose, otherwise it could not be considered as a gospel of Jesus. It is a narrative presented by a non-Jew who knows nothing of Jewish culture, in fact, does not have that background, which discovers in Jesus not the man turned into a god, in the Greek way, but God himself manifested in a man to show men how God is in His nature. Luke writes not for a public, his writing is a private letter addressed to his friend, Theophilus, who at one time was his traveling companion on the journey through Jerusalem in search of Jesus, of whom they had many references to his works. Luke presents historical facts of Jesus, not as historical accounts, but as interpretations of a message that His contemporaries could not see or understand about the way back to God. Luke keeps in mind from beginning to end in his writing that the things he writes about are to remember the aspects of faith in which they were taught by those who saw Him from the beginning. Luke comes out of a Greek philosophical environment accustomed to the philosophy and mythology of gods, demigods, and destiny; however, in his writing there are no hints or traits of his old way of thinking and acting, so when Luke presents the stories he does so from a perspective of growing faith, as a child who has learned to walk on his own and discovers new spaces he did not know before. Luke rediscovers in the account of the work of Jesus the doctrinal postulate on which the testimony of the Gospel of the Kingdom is based. That is why Luke's Gospel is important, it offers us a broader vision of faith in Jesus, it is a vision of growth, of true spiritual growth.
The first edition of this book was published in 1978 and a new Spanish e(,tition in 1989. When the first edition appeared, Professor A. Martin suggested that an English translation would meet with interest. Together with Professor A. S. Wightman, he tried to convince an American publisher to translate the book. Financial problems made this impossible. Later on, Professors E. H. Lieband W. Thirring proposed to entrust Springer-Verlag with the translation of our book, and Professor W. BeiglbOck accepted the plan. We are deeply grateful to all of them, since without their interest and enthusiasm this book would not have been translated. In the twelve years that have passed since the first edition was published, beautiful experiments confirming some of the basic principles of quantum me chanics have been carried out, and the theory has been enriched with new, im portant developments. Due reference to all of this has been paid in this English edition, which implies that modifications have been made to several parts of the book. Instances of these modifications are, on the one hand, the neutron interfer ometry experiments on wave-particle duality and the 27r rotation for fermions, and the crucial experiments of Aspect et al. with laser technology on Bell's inequalities, and, on the other hand, some recent results on level ordering in central potentials, new techniques in the analysis of anharmonic oscillators, and perturbative expansions for the Stark and Zeeman effects.
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