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At the Origin of the Christian Claim |
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The first English translation of Giussani's inquiry into Christ's Incarnation.
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.
Giussani argues that if we accept the hypothesis that the mystery entered the realm of human existence and spoke in human terms, the relationship between the individual and God is no longer based on a moral, imaginative, or aesthetic human effort but instead on coming upon an event in one's life. Thus the religious method is overturned by Christ: in Christianity it is no longer the person who seeks to know the mystery but the mystery that makes himself known by entering history.
At the Origin of the Christian Claim presents an intriguing argument supported with ample documentation from the gospels and other theological writings.
Giussani argues that if we accept the hypothesis that the mystery entered the realm of human existence and spoke in human terms, the relationship between the individual and God is no longer based on a moral, imaginative, or aesthetic human effort but instead on coming upon an event in one's life. Thus the religious method is overturned by Christ: in Christianity it is no longer the person who seeks to know the mystery but the mystery that makes himself known by entering history.
At the Origin of the Christian Claim presents an intriguing argument supported with ample documentation from the gospels and other theological writings.
Details
144 Pages, 6 x 9
ISBN 9780773516274
April 1998
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
Monsignor Luigi Giussani (1922-2005) was professor emeritus of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy, and the founder of the Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation, which is flourishing in Italy and has spread to over sixty countries throughout the world, including Canada, the United States, and Britain.
Table of Contents
Foreword by David Schindler vii
Preface ix
Introduction 3
Life and the Religious Factor 3
The Dizzying Human Condition 6
Reason in Search of a Solution 9
I THE RELIGIOUS CREATIVITY OF MAN 11
Some Attitudes of Religious Constructiveness 13
A Spectrum of Hypotheses 18
2 THE NEED FOR REVELATION 21
Some Examples 22
Facing an Unimaginable Claim 27
3 THE ENIGMA AS A FACT WITHIN THE HUMAN TRAJECTORY 29
A Radical Overturning of the Religious Method 30
No Longer Just an Hypothesis 31
A Problem That Must Be Solved 33
A Problem of Fact 34
4 HOW THE PROBLEM AROSE IN HISTORY 36
The Fact as Criterion 36
Concerning the Method 40
The Starting Point 43
5 A PROFOUND CERTAINTY WITH TIME 49
The Itinerary of Conviction 49
A Question Arises, A Certainty Breaks Forth 55
A Case of Moral Certainty 58
6 THE PEDAGOGY OF CHRIST'S SELF-REVELATION 59
The Essentials of the Pedagogy of Christ's Self-
Revelation 62
For His Sake: The Core of Freedom 63
The Moment of Identification 66
7 THE EXPLICIT DECLARATION 70
The First Dawning of Explicitness 72
A Challenge 73
The Conclusive Declaration 76
The Discretion of Freedom 78
8 CHRIST'S CONCEPTION OF LIFE 80
A Premise: Education in the Morality Necessary for Understanding 80
Human Stature 83
Human Existence 87
An Awareness Expressed as Asking 88
The Law of Life 192
Conclusion 97
9 THE MYSTERY OF THE INCARNATION 99
An Extraordinary Historical Reality 100
The Terms of this New Reality 103
Instinctive Resistance 110
Notes 109
Subject Index 117
Author Index 127
Foreword by David Schindler vii
Preface ix
Introduction 3
Life and the Religious Factor 3
The Dizzying Human Condition 6
Reason in Search of a Solution 9
I THE RELIGIOUS CREATIVITY OF MAN 11
Some Attitudes of Religious Constructiveness 13
A Spectrum of Hypotheses 18
2 THE NEED FOR REVELATION 21
Some Examples 22
Facing an Unimaginable Claim 27
3 THE ENIGMA AS A FACT WITHIN THE HUMAN TRAJECTORY 29
A Radical Overturning of the Religious Method 30
No Longer Just an Hypothesis 31
A Problem That Must Be Solved 33
A Problem of Fact 34
4 HOW THE PROBLEM AROSE IN HISTORY 36
The Fact as Criterion 36
Concerning the Method 40
The Starting Point 43
5 A PROFOUND CERTAINTY WITH TIME 49
The Itinerary of Conviction 49
A Question Arises, A Certainty Breaks Forth 55
A Case of Moral Certainty 58
6 THE PEDAGOGY OF CHRIST'S SELF-REVELATION 59
The Essentials of the Pedagogy of Christ's Self-
Revelation 62
For His Sake: The Core of Freedom 63
The Moment of Identification 66
7 THE EXPLICIT DECLARATION 70
The First Dawning of Explicitness 72
A Challenge 73
The Conclusive Declaration 76
The Discretion of Freedom 78
8 CHRIST'S CONCEPTION OF LIFE 80
A Premise: Education in the Morality Necessary for Understanding 80
Human Stature 83
Human Existence 87
An Awareness Expressed as Asking 88
The Law of Life 192
Conclusion 97
9 THE MYSTERY OF THE INCARNATION 99
An Extraordinary Historical Reality 100
The Terms of this New Reality 103
Instinctive Resistance 110
Notes 109
Subject Index 117
Author Index 127
