The Religious Sense

by Giussani, Luigi; Zucchi, John E.

• ISBN13: 9780773517134
• ISBN10: 0773517138
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-10-01
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
Preface
The First Premise: Realism	p. 3
The Second Premise: Reasonableness	p. 12
The Third Premise: The Impact of Morality on the Dynamic of Knowing	p. 23
The Religious Sense: The Starting Point	p. 34
The Religious Sense: Its Nature	p. 45
Unreasonable Positions Before the Ultimate Question: Emptying the Question	p. 59
Unreasonable Positions Before the Ultimate Question: Reduction of the Question	p. 70
Consequences of the Unreasonable Positions Before the Ultimate Question	p. 80
Preconception, Ideology, Rationality, and the Religious Sense	p. 94
How the Ultimate Questions Arise: The Way of the Religious Sense	p. 100
The Experience of the Sign	p. 110
The Adventure of Interpretation	p. 120
An Education in Freedom	p. 125
Reason's Energy Seeks to Penetrate the Unknown	p. 132
The Hypothesis of Revelation: Conditions for Its Acceptability	p. 141
Notes	p. 147
Subject Index	p. 155
Author Index	p. 163
Permissions	p. 165
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