Preface |
ix |
Unit 1 |
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The Foundation |
1 |
1.Religious Life as a Universal Phenomenon of Religion |
3 |
Religious Life as a Sign of God’s Love for Humanity in the World to Come |
3 |
Religious Life as a Phenomenon in the Catholic Church |
4 |
Religious Life as a Phenomenon in Christianity |
5 |
Religious Life as a Phenomenon in the Religion of Biblical Monotheism |
6 |
Religious Life as a Phenomenon |
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of World Religions |
6 |
The Source of the Christian Religious Vocation |
11 |
The Concrete Realization of the Christian Religious Vocation |
21 |
2. Religious Life and the Experience of God |
24 |
The Return to the Primary Experience of God |
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Through the Destruction of His Images |
24 |
The Transparency of the World as the Way of Experiencing the Living God |
29 |
What Is Experience? |
32 |
The Experience Typical of Our Modern World |
35 |
How God Appears in the Technico-Scientific World |
37 |
How God Appears in the Oppressed World of Latin America |
42 |
The Revelation of God in the Historical Process of the Individual |
49 |
The Christian Experience of God |
56 |
The Experience of God in Religious Life |
69 |
The Experience of God in the Process of Life-Death-Resurrection of Language |
74 |
Unit 2 |
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The Expression |
79 |
3. The Vows and the Human Person |
81 |
The Problem of the Vows |
81 |
The One Basic Vow: Total Consecration to God |
82 |
The Three Vows Detail and Concretize the Vow of Consecration |
85 |
The Essential Content of the Vows: The Divine Sovereignty |
89 |
4. Poverty: Commitment and Solidarity |
95 |
Poverty, an Offense Against God and Humanity |
96 |
Wealth and Evil That Dehumanizes the Person and Offends God |
98 |
Justifying the Two-fold Condemnation |
99 |
“Blessed Are the Poor’’ |
104 |
A Poverty That Is Treasure Desừed by God and That Ennobles Humanity |
108 |
Jesus,the Rich Man Who Became Poor |
113 |
5. Chastity: The Integration of the Masculine and Feminine |
116 |
The Endeavor of Ontological Reasoning |
117 |
Sexuality as an Ontological Structure of the Human Person |
119 |
The Basic Structure of the Human Personality |
121 |
Masculine and Feminine as Different Dimensions of the Human |
123 |
Cultural Manifestations of the Masculine and the Feminine |
124 |
Myth as Expressing the Masculine and the Feminine |
126 |
The Ontological Vision of the Masculine and Feminine and the Future of Relationships Between Men and Women |
129 |
Theological Implications of the Masculine and Feminine |
130 |
6. Obedience: A Way to Personal Fulfillment |
133 |
Personal Fulfillment and Its Depictions |
133 |
Situational Living: The Way to Fulfillment |
140 |
Personal Fulfillment and Taking Up the Cross |
144 |
Religious Obedience as the Way to Hear God |
148 |
The Religious, True to Oneself |
149 |
Unit 3 |
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The Existential Situation |
151 |
7. Religious Life and Secularly |
153 |
The Relationship Between Religious Life and Secularization |
154 |
The Pitfalls Inherent in Religious Life and in Secularization |
161 |
The Interrelatedness of Religious Life and Secularization |
163 |
Ramifications of Secularization for Religious Life |
167 |
Ramifications of Religious Life for Secularization |
172 |
8. Prayer in the Midst of the Secular World: Challenges and Risks |
177 |
The Origin of the Prayer Crisis of Today: Positive Aspects |
179 |
The Prayer of Jesus: Sacred and Profane |
184 |
Two Solutions |
187 |
Prayer and Prayer Forms: Their Unitive and Divisive Character |
196 |
Community: the Formula Creating the “We” of Faith |
199 |
Celebrations and Prayer: The Nature of the Profane and Sacral Person |
200 |
Prayer and Ritual: A Forgotten Reality |
203 |
Prayer, Play, and Humor: The Person as God’s Plaything |
204 |
The Time and Place for Prayer in the Secular World |
205 |
Unit 4 |
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The Mission |
207 |
9. Underdevelopment Liberation Evangelization and Religious Life |
209 |
The Challenges of the Real Situation: The Socio-Analytical Interpretation |
211 |
The Response of Faith: The Theological Interpretation of the Evidence |
218 |
The Evangelization Carried On by Religious Life |
220 |
Is It Possible to Evangelize in a Rich World with the Tools of the Poor? |
243 |
Conclusion: The Mystique of Commitment and Perseverance |
246 |
10. Religious Life and the Process of Liberation |
249 |
Religious Life Incarnated and Seen in a Concrete Situation |
249 |
Religious Life in the Process of Liberation |
251 |
The Spirituality of Hope Within Captivity |
261 |
Conclusion |
265 |
Notes |
267 |
List of Abbreviations |
285 |