At the Origin of the Christian Claim 9780773567092
In At the Origin of the Christian Claim Luigi Giussani examines Christ's "claim" to identify himself with
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Table of contents :
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
4 How the Problem Arose in History
The 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
The Discretion of Freedom
8 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
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Author Index
