03514nam 2200709Ia 450 991096471500332120200520144314.0978661285467597807735814940773581499978128285467312828546749780773566774077356677510.1515/9780773566774(CKB)1000000000713995(OCoLC)243586807(CaPaEBR)ebrary10138985(SSID)ssj0000285584(PQKBManifestationID)11235546(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000285584(PQKBWorkID)10297025(PQKB)11019914(CaPaEBR)400800(CaBNvSL)slc00200959 (DE-B1597)656304(DE-B1597)9780773566774(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/pphzz9(MiAaPQ)EBC3331390(MiAaPQ)EBC3245925(Perlego)3550857(EXLCZ)99100000000071399520000616d2001 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrWhy the church? /Luigi Giussani ; translated by Viviane Hewitt1st ed.Montreal McGill-Queen's University Pressc20011 online resource (280 p.) Translation of: Perche la Chiesa?9780773516540 0773516549 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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 IndexGiussani 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.ChurchChurch historyChurch.Church history.262/.7Giussani Luigi159648Hewitt Viviane1806968MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910964715003321Why the church4368272UNINA