Why the church? /

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 eleme...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Giussani, Luigi
Otros Autores: Hewitt, Viviane
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Italiano
Publicado: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2001.
Temas:
Church.
Église.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Ecclesiology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology of Religion.
Church
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • Preface
  • BOOK ONE: THE CLAIM CONTINUES
  • PART ONE
  • 1 How to Enter into an Understanding of the Church
  • 1 A Fundamental Presupposition
  • 2 Being in Tune With the Phenomenon
  • 3 Training the Focus on the Originality of Christianity
  • 4 The Heart of the Church Problem
  • 2 The First Premise: How to Attain Certainty about the Fact of Christ Today
  • 1 The Rationalistic Attitude
  • 2 An Inner Enlightenment
  • 3 The Orthodox-Catholic View
  • 4 A Gaze That Values the Other Positions
  • 3 The Second Premise: The Contemporary Difficulty in Understanding the Meaning of Christian Words1 Becoming Aware of a Difficulty
  • 2 The Middle Ages from the Point of View of Disseminating a Mentality
  • 3 Humanism From the Point of View of the Disarticulation of a Mentality
  • 4 The Renaissance: A View of Nature as the Ultimate Source of Human Energy
  • 5 Rationalism: The Difficulty of Man Conceived in the Abstract
  • 6 The Common Denominator of the Three Factors
  • 7 Conclusion
  • PART TWO: THE CONSTITUENT FACTORS OF THE CHRISTIAN PHENOMENON IN HISTORY
  • 4 The Continuity of Jesus Christ: Root of the Church's Self-Awareness1 The Path We Will Follow
  • 2 The Link with Jesus Christ
  • 5 The Three Constituent Factors
  • 1 The Reality of a Sociologically Identifiable Community
  • 2 The Community Invested by a Strength from on High
  • 3 A New Type of Life
  • Conclusion
  • BOOK TWO: THE EFFECTIVE SIGN OF THE DIVINE IN HISTORY
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE: THE CHURCH'S SELF-DEFINITION
  • 6 The Human Factor
  • 1 Through Human Reality
  • 2 Implications
  • 7 A Mission of the Church: Towards Earthly Man
  • 1 The Definitive Word on Man and History2 A Continuous Reminder
  • 3 The Best Position for Facing Human Problems
  • 4 The Problems of Man
  • 5 The Church's Task is Not to Resolve Human Problems
  • 6 Facilitating Aspects of a Truly Lived Freedom
  • 7 The Work of Every Man
  • 8 Religiosity Will Never Be Wholly Lived in History
  • 9 The Christian's Moral Tension
  • 8 The Divine in the Church
  • 1 The Self-Communication of Truth: Community, Tradition, Magisterium
  • 2 The Self-Communication of a Divine Reality
  • PART TWO: VERIFYING THE PRESENCE OF THE DIVINE IN THE LIFE OF THE CHURCH9 The Locus of Verification: Human Experience
  • 1 What the Church Demands as the Criterion of Judgment
  • 2 On the Use of a Criterion of Judgment in Its Utmost Expression
  • 3 Openness of Heart
  • 10 The Tree Can Be Told by Its Fruit
  • 1 Unity
  • 2 Holiness
  • 3 Catholicity
  • 4 Apostolicity
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Subject Index
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