We seem to be asking the same question: What is Christianity? A perplexing question for believers, I suspect. Test everything, Saint Paul tells us. Indeed, probe the question and don't be afraid of doubt and the questions. The certainty of faith is known in the experience and the investigation of the reasonableness of the faith.
Antonio Quaglio in article published today on ilsussidiario.net, "It's Christianity. Simple." reflects on what Father Julián Carrón spoke on at the New Encounter 2012 this past weekend: that Christianity, in its true sense, need to be lived without reservation and without excuses and justifications.
If you are interested in the answer the you can get at this way with Father Luigi Giussani's conversation notes with university students on August 31, 1978. Traces published an article entitled, "What Is Christianity? How we are born in that question."
In the article you'll read some striking things regarding Giussani approach to Christianity as well as those of his interlocutors like, "...Christianity is the way I have learned to have a passion for everything"
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"Christianity is this; it's a fact! A fact. If I were to punch him in the face and break his glasses, that I have broken his glasses is a fact. In the same way, a man said He was God. God became man, and this is why this man said, "I am God." The essential category of an answer to the question, "What is Christianity?" is that of a fact; a fact like the existence of Moscow, or the fact that he is a priest; he has been ordained priest-it's a fact. It's a fact. Look, it's not a question of taste, of intellectual clarity, or putting things in place. It is a condition, it's the fundamental condition for every Christian thought and every Christian action. The category of "fact" becomes the fundamental category for the Christian journey. So what is Christianity? It is a man who said He was God; in other words, a man who said, "I am the salvation of you life. I am the meaning of your life."
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