At the Origin of the Christian ClaimIn 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. |
Contents
Reason in Search of a Solution | 9 |
3 | 22 |
A Profound Certainty with Time | 49 |
A Question Arises A Certainty Breaks Forth | 55 |
The Essentials of the Pedagogy of Christs Self | 62 |
7 | 70 |
Christs Conception of Life | 80 |
Human Existence | 87 |
Conclusion97 | 97 |
Notes | 109 |
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able Abraham according affirmation answer attitude awareness Balthasar become believe called certainty Christian Claim conscience consciousness declare dependence destiny disciples divine dynamism Eliade encounter eternal event everything existential experience expression face fact faith Father Fisher King follow freedom friends fulfilled Fyodor Dostoyevsky gesture Giussani give Glory gods Gospel Gospel of John happened heart heaven Henri de Lubac hierophany human existence hypothesis Ibid imagine incarnation intelligence Jesus Christ Jews John living Lord Lubac Luigi Giussani Luke man's Manichaeism manifest Matt meaning Messiah method miracle Mircea Eliade moral mystery nature object original ourselves pathway person Pharisees Philip Mairet possible prayer precisely present Press problem question reality realized reason recognize relationship religions religious sense reveals Romano Guardini sacred Sanhedrin Schnackenburg seek supreme T.S. Eliot takes tell things tion tradition translated true truly truth ultimate understand University Walter Kasper whole word Zacchaeus