Il senso religioso

Synopsis of Il senso religioso

"Il senso religioso" is the first volume of the "PerCorso" series, in which Luigi Giussani summarizes his journey of thought and experience. The book identifies the religious sense as the very essence of rationality and the root of human consciousness. It places the religious sense at the level of the elementary experience of every human being, where the self asks questions about the meaning of life and reality. Monsignor Giussani guides the reader to discover the original sense of dependence that is the most profound evidence for humanity, highlighting reason as the capacity to account for reality in the totality of its factors. In the final chapter, the author shows that man—whose nature is a need for truth and fulfillment—intuits the answer implied in his own original dynamism, introducing the hypothesis of revelation: that the unknown Mystery takes the initiative to make itself known by encountering man.