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At the origin of the Christian claim / Luigi Giussani ; translated by Viviane Hewitt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Giussani, Luigi.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christianity--Origin.
- Christianity.
- Jesus Christ--Divinity.
- Jesus Christ.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 125 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Religious Creativity of Man
- The Need for Revelation
- The Enigma as a Fact Within the Human Trajectory
- How the Problem Arose in History
- A Profound Certainty in Time
- The Pedagogy of Christ’s Self-Revelation
- The Explicit Declaration
- Christ’s Conception of Life
- The Mystery of the Incarnation
- Notes
- Subject Index
- Author Index
- Notes:
- Translation of: All'origine della pretesa cristiana.
- Includes bibliographical references [109]-115) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786612854972
- 9780773581524
- 0773581529
- 9781282854970
- 1282854976
- 9780773567092
- 0773567097
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