The Life of Luigi Giussani

The Life of Luigi Giussani
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 1391
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ISBN-10 : 9780773552173
ISBN-13 : 0773552170
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis The Life of Luigi Giussani by : Alberto Savorana

Monsignor Luigi Giussani (1922–2005) was the founder of the Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation in Italy, which has hundreds of thousands of adherents around the globe. In The Life of Luigi Giussani Alberto Savorana, who spent an important part of his life working and studying with Giussani, draws on many unpublished documents to recount who the priest was and how he lived. Giussani’s life story is particularly significant because it shares many of the same challenges, risks, and paths toward enlightenment that are described in his numerous and influential publications. Savorana demonstrates that the circumstances Giussani experienced and the people he encountered played a crucial role in defining his vocation. Illuminating details are shared about Giussani’s parents, professors, and friends in the seminary, the things he read, his priesthood, his experience teaching, misunderstandings and moments of recognition, and illness. Luigi Giussani considered Christianity to be a fact, a real event in human life, which takes the form of an encounter, inviting anyone and everyone to verify its relevance to life’s needs. This is what happened for so many people all over the world who recognized in this priest and leader, with his rough and captivating voice, not only a teacher to learn from, but above all a man to compare oneself with – a companion for the journey who could be trusted to answer the question: how can we live? In addition to providing the first chronological reconstruction of the life of the founder of Communion and Liberation, The Life of Luigi Giussani provides a detailed account of his legacy and what his life’s work meant to individual people and the Church.

The Religious Sense

The Religious Sense
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 183
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ISBN-10 : 9780773567085
ISBN-13 : 0773567089
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis The Religious Sense by : Luigi Giussani

The Religious Sense, the fruit of many years of dialogue with students, is an exploration of the search for meaning in life. Luigi Giussani shows that the nature of reason expresses itself in the ultimate need for truth, goodness, and beauty. These needs constitute the fabric of the religious sense, which is evident in every human being everywhere and in all times. So strong is this sense that it leads one to desire that the answer to life's mystery might reveal itself in some way.

Is It Possible To Live This Way?

Is It Possible To Live This Way?
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 176
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ISBN-10 : 9780773534032
ISBN-13 : 0773534032
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Is It Possible To Live This Way? by : Luigi Giussani

A compilation of Giussani's conversations with young people who have chosen the path of the consecrated life in the Church

To Give One’s Life for the Work of Another

To Give One’s Life for the Work of Another
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 149
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ISBN-10 : 9780228010500
ISBN-13 : 0228010500
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis To Give One’s Life for the Work of Another by : Luigi Giussani

Father Luigi Giussani engaged tirelessly in educational initiatives throughout the course of his life. Much of his thought was communicated through the richness and rhythm of oral discourse, preserved as audio and video recordings in the archive of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation in Milan. This volume presents the last three spiritual exercises of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation, drawing from the transcripts of these recordings. In these exercises Giussani investigates the rise of ethics and the decline of ontology that have accompanied modernity and the spread of rationalism. Bearing up against old age and illness, he resisted the urge to withdraw, instead finding new avenues of communication and the technological means to reach all corners of the movement. To Give One’s Life for the Work of Another explores the nature of God, the powerful human experience of self-awareness, and the fundamental components of Christianity, in the unmistakable voice of a consummate teacher. At a time when young people are abandoning the church and questioning the value of faith, Father Giussani’s method of judging and verifying Christianity as an experience is a timeless intervention.

At the Origin of the Christian Claim

At the Origin of the Christian Claim
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 144
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ISBN-10 : 0773516271
ISBN-13 : 9780773516274
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis At the Origin of the Christian Claim by : Luigi Giussani

In At the origin of the Christian claim Liugi Giussani examines Christ's "claim" to identify himself with the mystery that is the ultimate answer to our search for the meaning of existence. 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 writing.

Why the Church?

Why the Church?
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : 9780773566774
ISBN-13 : 0773566775
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Why the Church? by : Luigi Giussani

From its beginnings, the Church has presented itself as a human phenomenon that carries the divine within it. As a social fact, its reality given form by men and women, the Church has always affirmed that its existence surpasses the human reality of its components and that it stands as the continuation of the event of Christ's entry into human history. Why the Church?, the final volume in McGill-Queen's University Press's trilogy of Luigi Giussani's writings, explores the Church's definition of itself as both human and divine and evaluates the truth of this claim.

Generating Traces in the History of the World

Generating Traces in the History of the World
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 196
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ISBN-10 : 9780773537675
ISBN-13 : 0773537678
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Generating Traces in the History of the World by : Luigi Giussani

An illuminating work on the Christian experience.

The Life of Luigi Giussani

The Life of Luigi Giussani
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 1444
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780773552180
ISBN-13 : 0773552189
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis The Life of Luigi Giussani by : Alberto Savorana

Monsignor Luigi Giussani (1922–2005) was the founder of the Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation in Italy, which has hundreds of thousands of adherents around the globe. In The Life of Luigi Giussani Alberto Savorana, who spent an important part of his life working and studying with Giussani, draws on many unpublished documents to recount who the priest was and how he lived. Giussani’s life story is particularly significant because it shares many of the same challenges, risks, and paths toward enlightenment that are described in his numerous and influential publications. Savorana demonstrates that the circumstances Giussani experienced and the people he encountered played a crucial role in defining his vocation. Illuminating details are shared about Giussani’s parents, professors, and friends in the seminary, the things he read, his priesthood, his experience teaching, misunderstandings and moments of recognition, and illness. Luigi Giussani considered Christianity to be a fact, a real event in human life, which takes the form of an encounter, inviting anyone and everyone to verify its relevance to life’s needs. This is what happened for so many people all over the world who recognized in this priest and leader, with his rough and captivating voice, not only a teacher to learn from, but above all a man to compare oneself with – a companion for the journey who could be trusted to answer the question: how can we live? In addition to providing the first chronological reconstruction of the life of the founder of Communion and Liberation, The Life of Luigi Giussani provides a detailed account of his legacy and what his life’s work meant to individual people and the Church.

The Meaning of Birth

The Meaning of Birth
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Total Pages : 108
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ISBN-10 : 1639821066
ISBN-13 : 9781639821068
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis The Meaning of Birth by : Luigi Giussani

In 1980, two men sit down to record a conversation. They have much in common: both are passionate, articulate thinkers. But their differences are just as striking: Giovanni Testori is a well-known writer-and an openly gay man. Luigi Giussani is a Catholic priest who has attracted so many students with his striking way of re-proposing the Christian message that he's unwittingly started a movement (which came to be known as Communion and Liberation). Testori, who has recently returned to the Catholic faith, begins with a provocative suggestion: modern people have lost contact with the existential and religious experience of birth, of an origin in love-the love of one's parents and the love of God. From here, the dialogue ranges widely, taking on the root causes of modern despair and alienation, the link between suffering and hope, the significance of memory, and what it means to encounter the presence of God in one another. Profound but accessible, The Meaning of Birth is a resonant and bracing exploration of life's most fundamental questions.

Is It Possible to Live This Way?

Is It Possible to Live This Way?
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 160
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ISBN-10 : 9780773575325
ISBN-13 : 0773575324
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis Is It Possible to Live This Way? by : Luigi Giussani

Unusual yet reasonable approaches to living life as a Christian.