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In Search of the Human Face
What do we mean when we say “I”? Behind that word there exists today a deep and abiding
confusion. And yet what could be more urgent for each and every one of us than
an understanding of what it means to be a subject—a true protagonist in the
world? Nothing is as fascinating as the discovery of the true dimensions of
one’s own “I.”
And nothing is as moving and provocative as the belief that God became flesh and
blood to accompany each person’s journey in search of their own human face. Unfolding
the implications of that belief is the burden of In Search of the Human Face,
one of the seminal books by Monsignor Luigi Giussani, founder of Communion and
Liberation.
Life presents
us first of all with a decision about what we recognize as our own foundation—and
this decision is an event that is continually proposed again. The encounter
with the Christian event has for two thousand years been the encounter with a
human phenomenon in which the passion for the discovery of one’s own face and
openness to reality are mysteriously awakened, and it has as an inevitable
consequence—the inauguration of a new type of morality, aptly described by
Romano Guardini: “In the experience of a great love, all that happens becomes
an event inside that love.”
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