At the origin of the Christian claim / Luigi Giussani ; translated by Viviane Hewitt.

Author/creator Giussani, Luigi
Format Electronic
Publication InfoMontreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press,
Descriptionxii, 125 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Uniform titleAll'origine della pretesa cristiana. English
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1 The Religious Creativity of Man / 1 -- Some Attitudes of Religious Constructiveness / 13 -- A Spectrum of Hypotheses / 18 -- 2 The Need for Revelation / 21 -- Some Examples / 22 -- Facing an Unimaginable Claim / 27 -- 3 The Enigma as a Fact Within the Human Trajectory / 29 -- A Radical Overturning of the Religious Method / 30 -- No LongerJust an Hypothesis / 31 -- A Problem That Must Be Solved / 33 -- A Problem of Fact / 34 -- 4 How the Problem Arose in History / 36 -- The Fact as Criterion / 36 -- Concerning the Method / 40 -- The Starting Point / 43 -- 5 A Profound Certainty with Time / 49 -- The Itinerary of Conviction / 49 -- A Question Arises, A Certainty Breaks Forth / 55 -- A Case of Moral Certainty / 58 -- 6 The Pedagogy of Christ's Self-Revelation / 59 -- The Essentials of the Pedagogy of Christ's Self- -- Revelation / 62 -- For His Sake: The Core of Freedom / 63 -- The Moment of Identification / 66 -- 7 The Explicit Declaration / 70 -- The First Dawning of Explicitness / 72 -- A Challenge / 73 -- The Conclusive Declaration / 76 -- The Discretion of Freedom / 78 -- 8 Christ's Conception of Life / 80 -- A Premise: Education in the Morality Necessary -- for Understanding / 80 -- Human Stature / 83 -- Human Existence / 87 -- An Awareness Expressed as Asking / 88 -- The Law of Life / 92 -- Conclusion / 97 -- 9 The Mystery of the Incarnation / 99 -- An Extraordinary Historical Reality / oo -- The Terms of this New Reality / 103 -- Instinctive Resistance / 104 -- Notes/ 109 -- Subject Index / 117 -- Author Index / 127.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [109]-115) and indexes.
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LanguageTranslation of: All'origine della pretesa cristiana.
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 00340504
ISBN0773517146 (bound)
ISBN0773516271 (pbk.)

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