Luigi Giussani: 27 books

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 Julián Carrón, Giussani's successor as head of Communion and Liberation,...

Luigi Giussani, a high school religion teacher throughout the 1950s and 1960s, grounded his teachings in the vast body of experience to be found in Christianity's two-thousand-year history. He told his students, “I'm not here to make you adopt the ideas I will give you as your own, but to teach...

This volume of Is It Possible to Live this Way, a translation of Luigi Giussani's Si Può Vivere Così?, 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...

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...

In American Protestant Theology, Luigi Giussani traces the history of the most meaningful theological expressions and the cultural significance of American Protestantism, from its origins in seventeenth-century Puritanism to the 1950s. Giussani clarifies and assesses elements of Protestantism such as...

Is It Possible to Live this Way, a translation of the first part of Luigi Giussani's Si Può Vivere Così?, addresses the virtue of hope. 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...

Este libro recoge las cartas que Luigi Giussani envió a su amigo Angelo Majo entre 1944 y 1964. En ellas se percibe el amor del joven sacerdote milanés por Cristo y su pasión por comunicarlo a los hombres. Amor por Cristo y pasión por el destino temporal y eterno de los hombres, que conducirían...

El sentido religioso es el primer volumen del Curso Básico de Cristianismo, en el que Luigi Giussani resume su itinerario de pensamiento y de experiencia. El libro identifica en el sentido religioso la esencia misma de la racionalidad y la raíz de la conciencia humana. Según el autor, el sentido...

"Ya no depende del estado de ánimo, de que lo sientas o no, de lo que opines o no, de lo que en ti está claro o está confuso. El cristianismo es un hecho cuyo contenido, rostro y forma es un hombre que prosigue en la historia a través de la asimilación a sí de los que él aferra... este...

Meditaciones sobre los himnos, cánticos y oraciones de la liturgia de las horas Este libro, de intensa belleza y extraordinaria modernidad, permite recorrer al lector el camino de la oración, teóricamente abierto a todos, pero transitado con gran dificultad por los hombres de este tiempo,...

En la experiencia de los apóstoles, Cristo era el único que se tomaba en serio sus necesidades. Hoy también se propone como respuesta a nuestra necesidad original. Por eso para encontrar a Cristo es necesario ante todo plantear seriamente nuestro propio problema humano. El encuentro histórico...

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...

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...

Un libro fulminante, di intensa bellezza e di straordinaria modernità . Giussani colloca la preghiera al centro della consapevolezza di sé, come il gesto che riconosce la presenza di Dio. Da questa coscienza, attesa, desiderio, nasce il senso che ogni mattina motiva il nostro esistere e la capacità...