At the Origin of the Christian Claim Book

Following upon Giussani's groundbreaking "The Religious Sense," the method of that book is applied to Christianity with provocative results. "Every man should follow the religion of his own tradition," syas Giussani. "Perhaps an encounter in life will draw attention to a doctrine, a morality, an emotion more suited to our reason or to our heart. In that case, we could well 'convert.' (Cardinal John Henry Newman noted that 'conversion' is nothing other than the deeper, more authentic discovery of what we have always adhered to)."
"A religion may commit only one crime: to say 'I am the religion, the one and only way.' And this is precisely what Christianity claims. This constitutes a crime, the moral imposition of its own expression on others. So there is nothing wrong in feeling repelled by such an affirmation: what would be wrong would be to leave unquestioned such an affirmation, the reason for this great claim."