In "At the Origin of the Christian Claim" Liugi Giussani examines Christ's 'claim' to identify himself with the mystery that is the ultimate answer to our search for the meaning of existence. Giussani argues that if we accept the hypothesis that the mystery entered the realm of human existence and s
At the Origin of the Christian Claim
โ Scribed by Luigi Giussani
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 140
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
In At the Origin of the Christian Claim Luigi Giussani examines Christ's "claim" to identify himself with the mystery that is the ultimate answer to our search for the meaning of existence.
โฆ Table of Contents
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Life and the Religious Factor
The Dizzying Human Condition
Reason in Search of a Solution
1 The Religious Creativity of Man
Some Attitudes of Religious Constructiveness
A Spectrum of Hypotheses
2 The Need for Revelation
Some Examples
Facing an Unimaginable Claim
3 The Enigma as a Fact Within the Human Trajectory
A Radical Overturning of the Religious Method
No Longer Just an Hypothesis
A Problem That Must Be Solved
A Problem of Fact
4 How the Problem Arose in History
The Fact as Criterion
Concerning the Method
The Starting Point
5 A Profound Certainty with Time
The Itinerary of Conviction
A Question Arises, A Certainty Breaks Forth
A Case of Moral Certainty
6 The Pedagogy of Christ's Self-Revelation
The Essentials of the Pedagogy of Christ's Self- Revelation
For His Sake: The Core of Freedom
The Moment of Identification
7 The Explicit Declaration
The First Dawning of Explicitness
A Challenge
The Conclusive Declaration
The Discretion of Freedom
8 Christ's Conception of Life
A Premise: Education in the Morality Necessary for Understanding
Human Stature
Human Existence
An Awareness Expressed as Asking
The Law of Life
Conclusion
9 The Mystery of the Incarnation
An Extraordinary Historical Reality
The Terms of this New Reality
Instinctive Resistance
Notes
Subject Index
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
Y
Z
Author Index
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