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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782632703321

Autore

Giussani Luigi

Titolo

Why the church? [[electronic resource] /] / Luigi Giussani ; translated by Viviane Hewitt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2001

ISBN

0-7735-8149-9

1-282-85467-4

9786612854675

0-7735-6677-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HewittViviane

Disciplina

262/.7

Soggetti

Church

Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of:  Perché la Chiesa?

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.