Philosophical exigencies of Christian religion.
"This is a translation of the last book Blondel published at the end of his life. Knowing he was close to death, Blondel wrote it as a culmination and synthesis of his approach to theological philosophy. It consists of two main essays on how Christian religion relates to philosophy: one on how...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
University of Notre Dame Press,
2021.
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Colección: | Thresholds in Philosophy and Theology Ser.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Translator's Preface
- 1 The Christian Sense
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Historical Aspect: What Is Specific about It in Christian Religion
- Chapter 2. The Intellectual Aspect and the Permanent Unity of the Christian Spirit
- Chapter 3. The Internal Proofs and the Spiritually Vivifying Aspect of Catholicism
- Chapter 4. Is It Possible to Define the Christian Spirit by Reducing It to a Principle of Essential Unity?
- Chapter 5. On the Enabling Method for Acceding to the Domain Where Lives the Indissoluble Unity of the Christian Spirit
- Chapter 6. The Catholic Unity
- Chapter 7. The Inventions of Charity and the Supernatural
- Chapter 8. The Destiny Offered and Imposed on Man
- Chapter 9. Synthetic Exploration and Progressive Elaboration Starting from the Generative Idea of Christian Religion
- Chapter 10. Unity of the Work of Creation for the External Glory of God through Supernatural Elevation
- Chapter 11. The Conditions for Realizing the Divine Plan for Surmounting the Difficulty of Uniting Two Incommensurables, the Creator and the Creature: On the One Hand, the Invention of Divine Charity to Cross the Abyss through the "Verbum Caro Factum" [the Word Made Flesh] and the Hypostatic Union, on the Other Hand, the Testing Imposed on Man by the Transformative Union
- Chapter 12. The Doctrine of the Supernatural Considered under Its Triple Metaphysical, Ascetic, and Mystical Aspect
- Chapter 13. How the Order of Grace Completes the Natural Orderand Forms with It in Us a Life and a Personality That Is Truly One
- Chapter 14. The Union of Nature and Supernature in the Practical Order Itself
- Chapter 15. The Philosophical Problem of Sanctity
- Chapter 16. The Proof of Christian Religion through the Idea and the Very Word-Catholicism
- Chapter 17. The Character of Apostolicity in Catholicism
- Conclusion
- 2 On Assimilation as Fulfillment and Transposition of The Theory of Analogy
- Foreword
- Chapter 1. Twofold Traditional Sense of the Word "Assimilation."
- Chapter 2. Getting beyond the Metaphors That Risk Masking the True Problem
- Chapter 3. Is the Issue One of a Simple Ideal Participation or Do We Have to Conceive of a Truly Vital Participation?
- Chapter 4. Irreplaceable Role of a Laborious Trial of Parturition for the "New Birth"
- Chapter 5. Paradox of the Tribulations of the Just and Scandal of the Sufferings Judged According to Our Human Views
- Chapter 6. Supreme Objection: The Problem of Evil in Its Most Universal Form
- Chapter 7. The Only Appeasing Solution of an Assimilative Theogony by Way of Renunciation and Even Death