"Fr. Giussani placed great emphasis on God’s free and surprising initiative in coming to us, made "encounterable" and "experienceable" in the concreteness of the human life of His Son, in the historical Jesus of Nazareth, who remains forever "a historical fact." This prompted his strong emphasis on Christianity not as a sentiment, a philosophical intuition of sublime truths, or a rigid set of ethical demands, but as an "event" perennially present in history. [...] Thus Fr. Giussani was able to unite “the questions of the human person” and “God’s answer,” showing the reasonableness of the Christian announcement inasmuch as it is the complete fulfillment of the human. His charism as an educator meant he was able to elicit the great questions of the heart, bring to the light the aspirations of the human person, and show how Christ is the definitive answer to those questions. This fascinated thousands of people in the course of his lifetime."
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As quoted in He took the human person seriously. He took Christ seriously, Communion and Liberation (February 1, 2025)
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