Pierluigi Pavone is professor of Philosophy at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome and author of several publications, including Politics, Messianism, Money. The Challenge of Democratic Capitalism to the Social Doctrine of the Church (Rome, 2010); Against the Stoics. Christ, Socrates, Buddha (Rome, 2011); Faith, Hope, Charity. Three Philosophical Meditations on the Theological Virtues (Rome, 2015); The Spiritual Age and the Divine Man. Against the false modern legacy of Joachim of Fiore (Naples, 2016).