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Title: The Religious Sense Author: Luigi Giussani ISBN: 0773516263 Price: 19.95 Publisher: Mcgill Queens University Press Publication Date: October 1997 Format: Paperback Pages: 164 Description: The fruit of many years of dialogue with students, The Religious Sense offers a spiritual path to meaning in life. Luigi Giussani challenges us to break through the layers of opinion and judgement that obscure happiness and to penetrate experience to discover our true selves. Luigi Giussani believes that the tools for self-discovery are within us, and through reason and openness we can understand and finally celebrate life. |
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Title: The Psalms Author: Luigi Giussani ISBN: 0824521242 Price: 18.95 Publisher: Crossroads Publication Date: April 1, 2004 Format: Paperback Pages: 192 Description: Monsignor Luigi Giussani has moved the hearts of the faithful for 50 years through the movement "Communion and Liberation." Now his simple, and profound book,"The Psalms," will prove an invaluable resource for people seeking to be fed from the spiritual wisdom of Monsignor Giussani. As he reminds us in the preface "we can understand Christian experience only with difficulty if we are unwilling to relive the history of the people of Israel, in all its aspects and in all its drama." This book will be a great help for Christians rediscovering the Liturgy of the Hours, and the Psalms, which are the heart of that Liturgy. |
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Title: Is It Possible To Live This Way? #3 Author: Luigi Giussani ISBN: 0773535152 Price: 17.95 Publisher: Mcgill Queens University Press Publication Date: September 2009 Format: Paperback Pages: 157 Description: This volume of "Is It Possible to Live this Way", a translation of Luigi Giussani's "Si Puo Vivere Cosi?", addresses the virtue of charity. A compilation of Giussani's conversations with young people who have chosen the path of the consecrated life in the Church - that is, have chosen to live their lives in the world according to the 'evangelical counsels' of poverty, chastity, and obedience - it proposes an unusual yet reasonable approach to living as a Christian. As in all his works, Giussani encourages young people to be serious about their own existence and loyal to their experience. The conversations reported here are fascinating and insightful, providing support for a way of life that today is frequently questioned, rejected, or censured. |
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Title: Is It Possible To Live This Way? #2 Author: Luigi Giussani ISBN: 0773534466 Price: 17.95 Publisher: Mcgill Queens University Press Publication Date: October 2008 Format: Paperback Pages: 162 Description: "Is It Possible to Live this Way?", a translation of the first part of Luigi Giussani's "Si Puo Vivere Cosi?", addresses the virtue of faith. A compilation of Giussani's conversations with young people who have chosen the path of the consecrated life in the Church - that is, have chosen to live their lives in the world according to the 'evangelical counsels' of poverty, chastity, and obedience - it proposes an unusual yet reasonable approach to living as a Christian. As in all his works, Giussani encourages young people to be serious about their own existence and loyal to their experience. The conversations reported here are fascinating and insightful, providing support for a way of life that today is frequently questioned, rejected, or censured. |
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Title: Is It Possible To Live This Way? #1 Author: Luigi Giussani ISBN: 0773535152 Price: 17.95 Publisher: Mcgill Queens University Press Publication Date: September 2009 Format: Paperback Pages: 157 Description: This volume of "Is It Possible to Live this Way", a translation of Luigi Giussani's "Si Puo Vivere Cosi?", addresses the virtue of charity. A compilation of Giussani's conversations with young people who have chosen the path of the consecrated life in the Church - that is, have chosen to live their lives in the world according to the 'evangelical counsels' of poverty, chastity, and obedience - it proposes an unusual yet reasonable approach to living as a Christian. As in all his works, Giussani encourages young people to be serious about their own existence and loyal to their experience. The conversations reported here are fascinating and insightful, providing support for a way of life that today is frequently questioned, rejected, or censured. |
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Title: Why the Church Author: Luigi Giussani ISBN: 0773517073 Price: 24.95 Publisher: Mcgill Queens University Press Publication Date: March 2001 Format: Paperback Pages: 288 Description: 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. 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 More... |
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Title: The Origin of the Christian Claim Author: Luigi Giussani ISBN: 0773516271 Price: 19.95 Publisher: Mcgill Queens University Press Publication Date: January 1, 1998 Format: Paperback Pages: 144 Description: In this inquiry into Christ's Incarnation, Luigi 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 writings. |
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Title: The Risk of Education Author: Luigi Giussani ISBN: 978077355718 Price: 17.95 Publisher: McGill Queens Publishing Publication Date: February 28, 2019 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 112 Description: The fundamental idea in the education of the young is the fact that it is through the younger generations that society successively rebuilds itself; therefore, the primary concern of society is to teach the young. What does education consist of, and how does it take place? The Risk of Education explores what is at our origins as human beings. It presents the argument that without the fundamental factors of tradition00something lived out in the present that proposes and gives its reasons--and criticism--asking yourself why?--the young person is merely a fragile leaf separated from its branch. |
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Title: Journey to Truth is an Experience Author: Luigi Giussani ISBN: 978077353148 Price: 19.95 Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press Publication Date: October 12, 2006 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 160 Description: As a young priest, Luigi Giussani was troubled by Catholicism's inability to effectively deal with secularism or laicism. In 1954 he began to develop a vision of faith rooted in experience. His ideas resonated with students and led to the birth of the Gioventù Studentesca (Student Youth) movement. Known today as Communion and Liberation, the movement is flourishing in Italy and around the world, including Canada, the United States, Brazil, Uganda, and Britain. The Journey to Truth Is an Experience is the first English translation of Il Cammino al vero è un'esperienza, Giussani's early works on the Christian experience, written from 1959-64. It begins with a guide on how to live the Christian life within the Student Youth community, followed by a call to base one's relationship with Christ on the example set by the apostles and other figures in the New Testament. Giussani concludes by outlining the movement's mission and More... |
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Title: Generating Traces in the History of the World Author: Luigi Giussani ISBN: 978077353768 Price: 22.95 Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press Publication Date: September 30, 2010 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 184 Description: Generating Traces in the History of the World is a synthesis of Monsignor Luigi Giussani's reflection on the Christian experience. His exploration of Christianity as an unforeseen and unforeseeable event in which the mystery became a man reveals how, by acknowledging this fact, an individual is simultaneously able to use reason and be moved by affection. Discussing the ways in which Christ continues to be present in history through the companionship of those whom He joins to himself in Baptism, Giussani illuminates how a sense of Christ's mercy can overcome negativity and encourage a useful life. A profound and moving work, Generating Traces in the History of the World will interest all those who have been inspired by Giussani's thought. |
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Title: Christ: God's Companionship with Man Author: Msgr. Luigi Giussani ISBN: 978-07735456 Price: 14.95 Publisher: McGill Queens University Press Publication Date: July 1, 2015 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 121 Description: This volume is a selection of the most significant writings by Monsignor Luigi Giussani, founder of the Italian Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation, which is practiced in eighty countries around the world. Presented by Julián Carrón, Giussani's successor as head of Communion and Liberation, Christ, God's Companionship with Man is the most succinct introduction to the breadth of Giussani’s thought, including memorable passages from works such as The Journey to Truth Is an Experience, At the Origin of the Christian Claim, Why the Church?, Generating Traces in the History of the World, and Is It Possible to Live This Way? Many speak of Giussani as a friendly presence, a man who believed that it was possible to live in faith every day and in any circumstance. Revealing that spirituality and community can be found in ordinary ways, Christ, God’s Companionship with Man will inspire all who read it. |