LA TRASMISSIONE DELLA FEDE IN UNA SOCIETÀ SECOLARIZZATA SULLA BASE DELLE PRINCIPALI PUBBLICAZIONI DI DON LUIGI GIUSSANI
THE TRANSMISSION OF FAITH IN A SECULARISED SOCIETY BASED ON THE MAIN PUBLICATIONS OF DON LUIGI GIUSSANI

Summary/Abstract: The article explores the theological-pastoral thought of Luigi Giussani, a priest of the diocese of Milan and founder of the Communion and Liberation movement. We want to examine in particular the method proposed by Giussani for transmitting the Christian faith in a pluralistic and secularized society. Giussani’s theological-pastoral thought is characterized by his passion for rationality, by a paresia in wanting to transmit to young people a Christianity that is not dutiful, reduced to an ethical imposition, but as a ‘Fact’ that has happened, which can be experienced today in the reality of the ecclesial community. According to Giussani, in order to transmit faith to modern man it is necessary to offer a pastoral that proposes faith in Christ as an aesthetic encounter that responds, that is, to man's needs for beauty, truth and goodness and to which it is reasonable to adhere. Faced with the anthropological problem of modernity, an adequate response for Giussani can come from a faith that attracts man for his beauty, that is, for his rational correctness.

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