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UNINA9910782632703321 |
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Autore |
Giussani Luigi |
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Why the church? [[electronic resource] /] / Luigi Giussani ; translated by Viviane Hewitt |
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Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2001 |
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0-7735-8149-9 |
1-282-85467-4 |
9786612854675 |
0-7735-6677-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Translation of: Perché la Chiesa? |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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” -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Subject Index -- Name Index |
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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 |
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