(From publisher website) "Messages from the Universal House of Justice, 1986–2001: The Fourth Epoch of the Formative Age offers a collection of messages from this period that tells a compelling story of a religious community maturing internally while externally emerging further from obscurity and solidifying its reputation in the world as a community concerned with unity, peace, and justice for all humanity. The closing years of the twentieth century were a period of tremendous turbulence in the world, witnessing upheavals of nations and peoples worldwide. The Bahá’í Faith penetrated parts of the world long closed off to Bahá’u’lláh’s healing message, and the people of those countries joined in the dedicated application of Bahá’u’lláh’s teachings in society. The disorder and chaos in the world appeared in sharp relief to the hard-won victories and joyful triumphs of a community clearly in the ascendant."