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 Gioventu 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 e un'esperienza, Giussani's early works...
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 ...
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.
As in all his works, Giussani encourages young people to be serious about their own existence and loyal to their experience. The conversations reporte...
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.
As in all his works, Giussani encourages young people to be serious about their own existence and loyal to their experience. The conversations reporte...
An exploration of the search for meaning in life. This work argues that the nature of reason expresses itself in an ultimate need for truth, goodness, and beauty, a need which constitutes the fabric of the religious sense, which is evident in every human being everywhere and in all times.
An exploration of the search for meaning in life. This work argues that the nature of reason expresses itself in an ultimate need for truth, goodness,...
This volume addresses the virtue of charity. It is a compilation fo Giussani's conversations with young people who have chosen the path of the consecrated life in the Church - that is, they have chosen to live their lives in the world according to the 'evangelical counsels' of poverty, chastity, and obedience."
This volume addresses the virtue of charity. It is a compilation fo Giussani's conversations with young people who have chosen the path of the consecr...
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 practised in eighty countries around the world. Presented by Julian Carron, 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...
This volume is a selection of the most significant writings by Monsignor Luigi Giussani, founder of the Italian Catholic lay movement Communion and Li...