To give one's life for the work of another / edited by Luigi Giussani and Julián Carrón.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giussani, Luigi, Author.

Contributor:

Giussani, Luigi, editor.

Carrón Pérez, Julián, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comunione e liberazione.

Spiritual exercises.

Spiritual life--Catholic Church.

Spiritual life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 pages)

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queens University Press, [2022]

Summary:

This volume presents spiritual exercises of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation, drawing from the transcripts of Father Luigi Giussani's addresses. To Give One's Life for the Work of Another explores the nature of God, self-awareness, and the fundamental components of Christianity, in the unmistakable voice of a consummate teacher.

Contents:

Cover

TO GIVE ONE'S LIFE FOR THE WORK OF ANOTHER

Title

Copyright

Contents

Preface: "Christ Is the Life of My Life"

Editorial Note

YOU OR ABOUT FRIENDSHIP (1997)

Introduction

"God Is All in All"

1. A New Beginning: Ontology

2. Two Temptations: Nihilism and Pantheism

3. The Existence of the I

4. Asking for Being

5. The Choice of Extraneousness

"Christ Is All and in All"

1. Nature and Destiny of the Person

2. The Imitation of Christ

3. God is Father

4. Jesus' Behaviour towards the Father

5. From Friendship to Morality

6. Light, Strength, and Help

7. Within the World History: Ecumenism and Peace

Assembly

Christ the Life of Life

1. "He Did and Taught"

2. An Event in the Present

THE MIRACLE OF A CHANGE (1998)

God and Existence

1. A Problem of Knowledge

2. Experience and Reason

3. Three Serious Reductions

4. The Corruption of Religiosity

5. Tradition and Charism

Faith in God Is Faith in Christ

1. A New Mentality

2. A Faith Emptied Out: The "Five Withouts" of Modern Rationalism

3. A New Morality

"Only Wonder Leads to Knowing"

CHRIST IS ALL AND IN ALL (1999)

A Decisive Word for Existence

1. The Need for and Evidence of Belonging

2. The Denial of Belonging and its Consequences

3. The Historicity of Belonging

If One Is in Christ, He Is a New Creation

1. The Event of a New Humanity

2. The Aim of Belonging

Assembly and Synthesis

SPEECHES AND GREETINGS (2000-2004)

2000 "What Is Man and How Does He Come to Know It?"

2001 "Abraham: The Birth of the I"

2002 "The Life I Now Live in the Flesh, I Live by Faith in the Son of God"

2004 "The Destiny of Man"

Notes.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Giussani, Luigi To Give One's Life for the Work of Another

ISBN:

9780228010500

0228010500

9780228010494

0228010497

OCLC:

1285960369