At the origin of the Christian claim / Luigi Giussani ; translated by Viviane Hewitt.

Translation of: All'origine della pretesa cristiana.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Translation of: All'origine della pretesa cristiana.

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 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

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

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