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Why the church? / Luigi Giussani ; translated by Viviane Hewitt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Giussani, Luigi.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church.
- Church history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Giussani begins by focusing on the Church as a community composed of people who are aware of themselves as defined by the gift of the Spirit, from which they derive a new conception of existence, the fruit of conversion. He then describes the Church's developing self-awareness of its dual elements of the human and divine. Concerned with verifying the Church's claim to embody Christ, Giussani situates the locus of verification in human experience, arguing that a different type of life is born in those who try to live the life of the Church. Why the Church? is a seminal study that will engage both the scholar and the general reader.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Preface
- The Claim Continues
- Part One
- How to Enter into an Understanding of the Church
- The First Premise: How to Attain Certainty about the Fact of Christ Today
- The Second Premise: The Contemporary Difficulty in Understanding the Meaning of Christian Words1
- The Constituent Factors of the Christian Phenomenon in History
- The Continuity of Jesus Christ: Root of the Church’s Self-Awareness
- The Three Constituent Factors
- Conclusion
- The Effective Sign of the Divine in History
- Introduction
- The Church’s Self-Definition
- The Human Factor
- A Mission of the Church: Towards Earthly Man
- The Divine in the Church
- Verifying the Presence of the Divine in the Life of the Church
- The Locus of Verification: Human Experience
- “The Tree Can Be Told By Its Fruit”
- Notes
- Subject Index
- Name Index
- Notes:
- Translation of: Perche la Chiesa?
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786612854675
- 9780773581494
- 0773581499
- 9781282854673
- 1282854674
- 9780773566774
- 0773566775
- OCLC:
- 243586807
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