The Life of Luigi Giussani 9780773552173

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The Life of Luigi Giussani
 9780773552173

Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Introduction
PART ONE: 1922–1964
1 Birth and Childhood (1922–1933)
2 The Seminary (1933–1945)
3 The Masters of the "School of Venegono"
4 "Studium Christi" and Priestly Ordination (1939–1945)
5 The Early Years of Priesthood and Illness (1945–1950)
6 From the Confessional to Assistant to Student Youth (1950–1954)
7 Starting to Teach in Berchet High School (1954)
8 Montini, the Citizen Mission, and The Religious Sense (1957–1958)
9 The Experience of GS: A Method Imposes Itself (1958–1962)
10 The Adult Group: The Events Leading Up to It and Its Beginnings (1958–1975)
11 The Beginning of the Mission in Brazil (1960–1964)
12 Montini, Experience, the Council, and Giovanni Colombo (1963–1964)
PART TWO: 1964–1986
13 From His Travels in America to the Beginning of the Crisis (1965–1967)
14 Sixty-Eight
15 The Birth of CL and the Early Seventies
16 Friendship with the University Students (1970–1976)
17 Spain: A Historical Excursus (1974–1985)
18 Palm Sunday with Pope Paul VI (1975)
19 The Late Seventies
20 The Year of Three Popes (1978)
21 The Birth of the Fraternity of CL and Its Pontifical Recognition (1980–1982)
22 The Assassination Attempt on John Paul II and the Early Eighties
23 CL's Thirtieth Anniversary and the Pope's Missionary Mandate (1984)
24 The Late Eighties
PART THREE: 1986–2005
25 Trips to the Holy Land, Japan, and Greece (1986–1987)
26 The Synod on the Laity and the Tenth Anniversary of John Paul II (1987–1988)
27 Pontifical Recognition of the Memores Domini and the Fraternity of Saint Joseph (1988–1990)
28 The War in Iraq and the Pilgrimage to Lourdes (1991–1992)
29 The Books of the Christian Spirit, Justice, and the Historicity of the Gospels (1993–1994)
30 The Movement's Fortieth Anniversary and the University Students (1994)
31 Responsibility and Italy in Danger (1995–1996)
32 Illness and "God All in All" (1996–1997)
33 Spirto Gentil, The Religious Sense at the UN, and Modern Rationalism (1997–1998)
34 30 May with John Paul II and the Work (1998–1999)
35 The "Christian Claim" and the Jubilee of the Year 2000 (1999–2000)
36 Ground Zero and Giussani's Eightieth Birthday (2001–2002)
37 The Space Shuttle and Nasiriyah (2003)
38 The Last Letter to the Pope and CL's Fiftieth Anniversary (2004)
39 The Death of Giussani and the Funeral (2005)
Epilogue
Historical Note
Endnotes
Index of Names
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