At the origin of the Christian claim
By: Luigi Giussani ; translated by Viviane Hewitt.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Montreal; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 125
Subjects: Jesus Christ -- Divinity.; Jésus-Christ -- Divinité.; Christianity -- Origin.; Christianisme -- Origines.
Notes: Translation of: All'origine della pretesa cristiana.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [109]-115) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 The Religious Creativity of Man / 1; title: Some Attitudes of Religious Constructiveness / 13; title: A Spectrum of Hypotheses / 18; title: 2 The Need for Revelation / 21; title: Some Examples / 22; title: Facing an Unimaginable Claim / 27; title: 3 The Enigma as a Fact Within the Human Trajectory / 29; title: A Radical Overturning of the Religious Method / 30; title: No LongerJust an Hypothesis / 31; title: A Problem That Must Be Solved / 33; title: A Problem of Fact / 34; title: 4 How the Problem Arose in History / 36; title: The Fact as Criterion / 36; title: Concerning the Method / 40; title: The Starting Point / 43; title: 5 A Profound Certainty with Time / 49; title: The Itinerary of Conviction / 49; title: A Question Arises, A Certainty Breaks Forth / 55; title: A Case of Moral Certainty / 58; title: 6 The Pedagogy of Christ's Self-Revelation / 59; title: The Essentials of the Pedagogy of Christ's Self-; title: Revelation / 62; title: For His Sake: The Core of Freedom / 63; title: The Moment of Identification / 66; title: 7 The Explicit Declaration / 70; title: The First Dawning of Explicitness / 72; title: A Challenge / 73; title: The Conclusive Declaration / 76; title: The Discretion of Freedom / 78; title: 8 Christ's Conception of Life / 80; title: A Premise: Education in the Morality Necessary; title: for Understanding / 80; title: Human Stature / 83; title: Human Existence / 87; title: An Awareness Expressed as Asking / 88; title: The Law of Life / 92; title: Conclusion / 97; title: 9 The Mystery of the Incarnation / 99; title: An Extraordinary Historical Reality / oo; title: The Terms of this New Reality / 103; title: Instinctive Resistance / 104; title: Notes/ 109; title: Subject Index / 117; title: Author Index / 127.