Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

INTRODUCTION..    ..          ..          ..          ..          ..          ix

CHAPTER ONE: ALPHA AND OMEGA..  ..          ..          1

CHAPTER TWO: THE MYSTERY OF GOD
AND GODLINESS..  ..          ..          ..          ..          ..          5

CHAPTER THREE: WHAT GOD
AND GODLINESS ARE NOT..         ..          ..          ..          11

  1. General Statement of Traditional Doctrine
  2. Negative Definition of God and Godliness
  3. Man’s Movement Toward God and Godliness
  4. Application to Ecumenism .

CHAPTER FOUR: WHAT GOD
AND GODLINESS ARE..      ..          ..          ..          ..          53

  1. Catholic Doctrine on Positive Concepts of God
  2. Positive Definition of Godliness
  3.  Man’s Positive Movement Toward God and Godliness
  4. Positive Godliness and Ecumenism

CHAPTER FIVE: FUNDAMENTAL GOD
AND RADICAL GODLINESS..        ..          ..          ..          95

  1. Fundamental God
  2. Radical Godliness in Created Being
  3. Radical Godliness in the Doctrine of Aquinas
  4. Radical Godliness and Natural Man
  5. Radical Godliness and the Order of Grace
  6. Radical Godliness and Theories of Human Perfectibility
  7. Radical Godliness and Ecumenism

CHAPTER SIX: IMAGE OF GOD BY NATURE..  ..          155

  1. Image and Likeness
  2. The Evolution of Man as Image of God
  3. The Universe as the Womb of God
  4. Freedom as Midwife
  5. Image in Community
  6. Flawed Image

CHAPTER SEVEN: IMAGE OF GOD BY GRACE..             ..       209

  1. The Message of Christ
  2. The Life of Grace
  3. Evolution in the Life of Grace
  4. Grace and Nature, the New Life and the Old
  5. Image by Grace and Ecumenism
  6. Image by Grace in Community
  7. Image in a Community of Faith
  8. Image in a Community of Hope
  9. Image in a Community or Charity
  10. Summary

CHAPTER EIGHT: CHRIST AND HUMANITY..  ..          253

  1. The Incarnation
  2. Mission of Christ
  3. The Encounter with God Through the Humanity of Christ
  4. The Special Work of Christ
  5. Christ and the Church
  6. Christ and the Sacraments
  7. Christ and Humanity—Conclusion

BIBLIOGRAPHY..    ..          ..          ..          ..          ..          311