{"product_id":"the-life-of-faith","title":"The Life of Faith","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003eBy Romano Guardini\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eConcluding his Farewell Discourse,\u003c\/b\u003e Christ tells his Apostles: “The Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.” Thus does the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost mark the formal beginning of Christian existence; it is “the first time we have that which is properly called faith.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003eTreating the mystery of faith, not as a concept, but as a living reality, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Life of Faith\u003c\/i\u003e takes its cue from divine revelation (the “only means” by which faith is intelligible) and examines the essence of faith as the covenant between the God who speaks to man and the man who hears the Divine voice. Across ten succinct chapters, Guardini considers faith and its relationships to hope and love, to action and knowledge, and to the life of Church, in dogma and sacrament, as its ultimate fulfillment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat is the object of Christian faith? The living God who reveals Himself in Christ. Not God in general, understood in an indefinite sense or as somehow experienced, but Him \u003c\/em\u003e“\u003cem\u003ewho is God and the Father of Jesus Christ.\u003c\/em\u003e” (\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eRomano Guardini)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003eA powerful aid to meditation, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Life of Faith\u003c\/i\u003e also issues a stern challenge to subjective, spiritualistic conceptions of what it means to believe, staunchly affirming faith in Jesus Christ as the ever-ancient, ever-new foundation of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRomano Guardini\u003c\/b\u003e (1885–1968) was a Catholic priest, professor, and author. He taught theology and philosophy at the University of Berlin, University of Tübingen, and University of Munich. Included among his intellectual disciples are Josef Pieper, Luigi Giussani, and Joseph Ratzinger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 150pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685951412\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50069863596269,"sku":"978-1685951412","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0815\/7970\/4557\/files\/Product144.jpg?v=1780621589","url":"https:\/\/faithroots.shop\/products\/the-life-of-faith","provider":"FaithRoots Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}