Social Science Sociology Of Religion
Why the Church?
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2001
- Category
- Sociology of Religion
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773516540
- Publish Date
- Mar 2001
- List Price
- $125.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780773517073
- Publish Date
- Mar 2001
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
Giussani begins by focusing on the Church as a community composed of people who are aware of themselves as defined by the gift of the Spirit, from which they derive a new conception of existence, the fruit of conversion. He then describes the Church's developing self-awareness of its dual elements of the human and divine. Concerned with verifying the Church's claim to embody Christ, Giussani situates the locus of verification in human experience, arguing that a different type of life is born in those who try to live the life of the Church. Why the Church? is a seminal study that will engage both the scholar and the general reader.
About the author
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
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