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...

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Main Author: Blondel, Maurice, 1861-1949
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : University of Notre Dame Press, 2021.
Series:Thresholds in Philosophy and Theology Ser.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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