The context and the challenges -- Is a new beginning possible? -- Truth and freedom: a paradigm -- In the collapse of the self-evident, a subject is generated -- The challenge of true dialogue after the Charlie Hebdo attacks -- An event of rebirth -- Christianity faced with the challenges of the present -- The religious sense, verification of the faith -- The "eternal mystery of our being" -- Broadening reason -- Freedom is the most precious gift heaven gave to humanity -- An educational emergency -- Introduction to total reality -- The "hot point" -- A communication of yourself -- A new protagonist on the world scene -- "Lady, your beauty seemed to me / Like a divine light in my mind" -- With the audacity of realism -- Crisis: a challenge to change -- In politics, too, the other is a good -- How does a presence come to be?
Summary
Disarming Beauty is the English translation of an engaging and thought-provoking collection of essays by one of the principal Catholic leaders and intellectuals in the world today. Adapted from talks given by Fr. Carrón, these essays have been thoroughly reworked by the author to offer an organic presentation of a decade-long journey. They present the content of his elaboration of the gospel message in light of the tradition of Fr. Giussani, the teachings of the popes, and the urgent needs of contemporary people
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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