The Religious Sense
New Revised Edition
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2023
- Category
- General, Catholic
-
Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780228016205
- Publish Date
- Feb 2023
- List Price
- $120.00
-
Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780228016212
- Publish Date
- Feb 2023
- List Price
- $26.95
Add it to your shelf
Where to buy it
Description
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.
Giussani challenges us to penetrate the deepest levels of experience to discover our essential selves, breaking through the layers of opinions and judgments that have obscured our true needs. Asserting that all the tools necessary for self-discovery are inherent within us, he focuses primarily on reason, not as narrowly defined by modern philosophers, but as an openness to existence, a capacity to comprehend and affirm reality in all of its dimensions.
Part of the so-called new religious revival, The Religious Sense avoids any sentimental or irrational reduction of the religious experience. It is a forthright and refreshing call to reassess our lives. In this revised edition, John Zucchi offers a new translation of this seminal and best-selling work.
About the authors
Monsignor Luigi Giussani (1922-2005) was the founder of the Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation in Italy. His works are available in fifteen languages and include the trilogy The Religious Sense, At the Origin of the Christian Claim, and Why th
CA
Jean Bethke Elshtain is Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Chair in the Foundations of American Freedom at Georgetown University.
Editorial Reviews
"I express my personal gratitude for the good it did for me, as a priest, to contemplate some of Fr Giussani’s books … and I do so also as universal Pastor for all that he knew how to sow and spread everywhere for the good of the Church." Pope Francis, address to the members of Communion and Liberation, St Peter’s Square, 15 October 2022
Other titles by
The Risk of Education
Discovering Our Ultimate Destiny
Christ, God's Companionship with Man
American Protestant Theology
A Historical Sketch
Generating Traces in the History of the World
New Traces of the Christian Experience
Is It Possible to Live This Way?
An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence
Is It Possible To Live This Way?
An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence, Volume 2: Hope
Is It Possible To Live This Way?
An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence, Volume 1: Faith
The Journey to Truth is an Experience
Why the Church?
