| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 125 pages) |
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Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Life and the Religious Factor -- The Dizzying Human Condition -- Reason in Search of a Solution -- 1 The Religious Creativity of Man -- Some Attitudes of Religious Constructiveness -- A Spectrum of Hypotheses -- 2 The Need for Revelation -- Some Examples -- Facing an Unimaginable Claim -- 3 The Enigma as a Fact Within the Human Trajectory -- A Radical Overturning of the Religious Method -- No Longer Just an Hypothesis -- A Problem That Must Be Solved -- A Problem of Fact |
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4 How the Problem Arose in HistoryThe Fact as Criterion -- Concerning the Method -- The Starting Point -- 5 A Profound Certainty with Time -- The Itinerary of Conviction -- A Question Arises, A Certainty Breaks Forth -- A Case of Moral Certainty -- 6 The Pedagogy of Christ's Self-Revelation -- The Essentials of the Pedagogy of Christ's Self- Revelation -- For His Sake: The Core of Freedom -- The Moment of Identification -- 7 The Explicit Declaration -- The First Dawning of Explicitness -- A Challenge -- The Conclusive Declaration |
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The Discretion of Freedom8 Christ's Conception of Life -- A Premise: Education in the Morality Necessary for Understanding -- Human Stature -- Human Existence -- An Awareness Expressed as Asking -- The Law of Life -- Conclusion -- 9 The Mystery of the Incarnation -- An Extraordinary Historical Reality -- The Terms of this New Reality -- Instinctive Resistance -- Notes -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z |
| Summary |
Giussani argues that if we accept the hypothesis that the mystery entered the realm of human existence and spoke in human terms, the relationship between the individual and God is no longer based on a moral, imaginative, or aesthetic human effort but instead on coming upon an event in one's life. Thus the religious method is overturned by Christ: in Christianity it is no longer the person who seeks to know the mystery but the mystery that makes himself known by entering history. At the Origin of the Christian Claim presents an intriguing argument supported with ample documentation from the gospels and other theological writings |
| Notes |
Translation of: All'origine della pretesa cristiana |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Translation of: All'origine della pretesa cristiana |
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Print version record |
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Jesus Christ -- Divinity
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Jesus Christ |
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Christianity -- Origin.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Systematic.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- General.
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Christianity -- Origin
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Divinity of Christ
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Offenbarung.
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Religiosität.
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Christianisme -- Origines.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hewitt, Viviane
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| LC no. |
97901134 |
| ISBN |
9780773567092 |
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0773567097 |
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1282854976 |
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9781282854970 |
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9786612854972 |
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6612854979 |
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0773581529 |
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9780773581524 |
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