03904pam a22003857a 4500 13244990 AUA.1 20160120125213.0 000616s2001 quc b 001 0 eng d 2003542689 009008985 0773516549 (bound) 0773517073 (pbk.) (OCoLC)ocm44495088 COO COO NLC DLC eng ita pcc BR 145.3 .G58 2001 262/.7 21 Giussani, Luigi. 6059 Perché la Chiesa? English Why the church? / Luigi Giussani ; translated by Viviane Hewitt. Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2001. xi, 267 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-245) and indexes. Contents: BOOK ONE: THE CLAIM CONTINUES""; ""PART ONE""; ""1 How to Enter into an Understanding of the Church""; ""1 A Fundamental Presupposition""; ""2 Being in Tune With the Phenomenon""; ""3 Training the Focus on the Originality of Christianity""; ""4 The Heart of the Church Problem""; ""2 The First Premise: How to Attain Certainty about the Fact of Christ Today""; ""1 The Rationalistic Attitude""; ""2 An Inner Enlightenment""; ""3 The Orthodox-Catholic View""; ""4 A Gaze That Values the Other Positions"" ""3 The Second Premise: The Contemporary Difficulty in Understanding the Meaning of Christian Words""""1 Becoming Aware of a Difficulty""; ""2 The Middle Ages from the Point of View of Disseminating a Mentality""; ""3 Humanism From the Point of View of the Disarticulation of a Mentality""; ""4 The Renaissance: A View of Nature as the Ultimate Source of Human Energy""; ""5 Rationalism: The Difficulty of Man Conceived in the Abstract""; ""6 The Common Denominator of the Three Factors""; ""7 Conclusion""; ""PART TWO: THE CONSTITUENT FACTORS OF THE CHRISTIAN PHENOMENON IN HISTORY"" ""4 The Continuity of Jesus Christ: Root of the Church's Self-Awareness""""1 The Path We Will Follow""; ""2 The Link with Jesus Christ""; ""5 The Three Constituent Factors""; ""1 The Reality of a Sociologically Identifiable Community""; ""2 The Community Invested by a ""Strength from on High""""; ""3 A New Type of Life""; ""Conclusion""; ""BOOK TWO: THE EFFECTIVE SIGN OF THE DIVINE IN HISTORY""; ""Introduction""; ""PART ONE: THE CHURCH'S SELF-DEFINITION""; ""6 The Human Factor""; ""1 Through Human Reality""; ""2 Implications""; ""7 A Mission of the Church: Towards Earthly Man"" ""1 The Definitive Word on Man and History""""2 A Continuous Reminder""; ""3 The Best Position for Facing Human Problems""; ""4 The Problems of Man""; ""5 The Church's Task is Not to Resolve Human Problems""; ""6 Facilitating Aspects of a Truly Lived Freedom""; ""7 The Work of Every Man""; ""8 Religiosity Will Never Be Wholly Lived in History""; ""9 The Christian's Moral Tension""; ""8 The Divine in the Church""; ""1 The Self-Communication of Truth: Community, Tradition, Magisterium""; ""2 The Self-Communication of a Divine Reality"" ""PART TWO: VERIFYING THE PRESENCE OF THE DIVINE IN THE LIFE OF THE CHURCH""""9 The Locus of Verification: Human Experience""; ""1 What the Church Demands as the Criterion of Judgment""; ""2 On the Use of a Criterion of Judgment in Its Utmost Expression""; ""3 Openness of Heart""; ""10 ""The Tree Can Be Told by Its Fruit""""; ""1 Unity""; ""2 Holiness""; ""3 Catholicity""; ""4 Apostolicity"" Church. 6060 Christianity History 52461 Hewitt, Viviane. 6061 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BOOK 1674 1674 0 0 lcc 0 0 Books AUA.1 AUA.1 GS 2011-10-12 Bought by JTL 10.00 AUA001867 0 BR 145.3 .G58 2001 AUA001867 2011-10-12 00:00:00 10.00 2011-10-12 BOOK