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Why the Church?
Luigi Giussani
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Paperback. From its beginnings, the Church has presented itself as a human phenomenon that carries the divine within it. This book is the final volume in McGill-Queen's University Press's trilogy of Luigi Giussani's writings, and explores the Church's definition of itself as both human and divine and evaluates the truth of this claim. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HRCC2; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 166 x 22. Weight in Grams: 426.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773517073
SKU
V9780773517073
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-21
About Luigi Giussani
Monsignor Luigi Giussani (1922–2005) was the founder of the Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation in Italy. His works are available in over twenty languages and include the trilogy The Religious Sense, At the Origin of the Christian Claim, and Wh
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