The Crossroads Booklist

Reading is the first way to listen, and therefore to learn.

On May 2003, Father Giussani, at the ceremony for the 10th anniversary of the birth of the "Books of the Christian Spirit" Series directed by him, stated:

"It is through education that a people can be built into a unified conscience and a civilization. More than ever today we understand how urgent and necessary this task is for those who have responsibility. Reading is part of this educational path toward the reconstruction of what is human. To encounter the story of people who have lived reality intensely, who have endured its provocations as an unanswered question, or rather, in glimpsing in it the features of a good destiny, have arrived at the unforeseen discovery of a positive answer, is the documented purpose of many of the books published in this series.

In particular, we want to show the reasonableness and the usefulness for the contemporary man of this answer to the drama of existence that is called 'the Christian event.' We offer that answer as a sincere contribution to that education to reality for a true liberation of young people and adults."

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Books by Luigi Giussani or About the Charism of CL

The Religious Sense

At the Origin of the Christian Claim

Why The Church

The Psalms

The Risk of Education

The Journey to Truth is an Experience

The Work of the Movement: The Fraternity of Communion and Liberation (with Giorgio Feliciani)

Is Possible to Live this Way? Faith

Is it Possible to Live this Way? Hope

Is it Possible to Live this Way? Charity

Religious Awareness in Modern Man

A Generative Thought: The Movement of Communion and Liberation (ed. Eliza Buzzi)

Communion and Liberation: A Movement in the Church (with Davide Rondoni)

"Books of the Christian Spirit" Series (available in English)

(This is the series founded in Italy by Fr. Luigi Giussani and directed by Fr. Julián Carrón)

Introduction

God was made man. The unforeseeable became a real event: God made himself companion to men so that life might not be pointless. The Christian Spirit is the humanity of persons who are astounded and moved by this event. These books document this to a rare degree.

In them, a Christian spirit is revealed, with varying modes of expression and from different historical and psychological perspectives. A Christian spirit that is involved in discovering and verifying the reasonableness of faith within the circumstance of life. Thus, it is humanity that makes concrete its passion for life and its adherence to the drama of existence with a realism and depth that would otherwise be impossible.

The Crossroads Booklist

Books by Luigi Giussani or About the Charism of CL

"Books of the Christian Spirit" Series (available in English)

Books Suggested by Communion and Liberation (available in English)

Books Suggested by Crossroads

Elsewhere