| Preface |
ix |
| Unit 1 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
Tác giả: Thanh Bằng
Tác giả: Nhiều Tác Giả
Tác giả: Nhiều Tác Giả
Tác giả: Timothy Radcliffe
Tác giả: Vô Danh
Tác giả: P. Bianchi
Tác giả: Vô Danh
Tác giả: Vô Danh
Tác giả: Lm. Bảo Tịnh
Tác giả: Carlo M. Martini
