Contents |
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Preface |
vii |
I Between Two Dangers |
1 |
The paradox of the Christian life |
1 |
The Church between Charybdis and Scylla |
1 |
The contrast of generations |
2 |
The naturalistic reaction |
3 |
In search of the right balance |
4 |
Idolatrous Egotism and Christian Faith |
6 |
Absolute egotism is taking the place of the Absolute |
6 |
‘I’: the supreme point of reference |
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for good and evil |
7 |
The T and its ambiguities |
9 |
Hypertrophic Egotism |
12 |
The humanistic psychology |
12 |
The primacy of the ego |
13 |
A glance at a few self-analyses |
16 |
Self-centredness and altruism |
16 |
Is My Lived Experience the Supreme Criterion? |
20 |
Subjectivism |
20 |
Temporary faithfulness |
21 |
The primacy of experience |
22 |
The True Self from the Christian Viewpoint |
25 |
The Christian viewpoint |
25 |
Man in the likeness of God |
26 |
Wounded, sinful Man |
28 |
Man saved and liberated |
32 |
Man loved by God |
33 |
Underlying Doctrinal Problems concerning God |
35 |
God—what absolute have we in mind? |
36 |
Christ, the Saviour of Man |
39 |
The Pelagian controversy |
41 |
Underlying Doctrinal Problems concerning Man 43 |
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What do we mean by ‘human nature’? |
43 |
What does ‘being wholly myself’ mean? |
44 |
What kind of autonomy? |
46 |
What kind of fullness of life? |
47 |
Growth of the Christian |
48 |
Christian Maturity |
48 |
Dangers to be avoided |
52 |
Methods of Growth, in Christian Analysis |
57 |
The method, from the angle of its ultimate aim |
57 |
The method, from the angle of integration |
59 |
The method, from the angle of sacramental integration |
61 |
Methods of Growth, in Psychological Analysis 67 |
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The respective roles of the priest and the layman |
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as guides |
67 |
Introspection is not self-absorption |
69 |
The relativity of each method |
70 |
The guides |
71 |
The guided |
71 |
How do you judge a tree by its fruit? |
73 |
At the Meeting-Point of Nature and Grace |
75 |
The Christian, a social being |
75 |
The family as the essential nucleus of community |
79 |
Led by the Holy spirit |
81 |
A symbol |
82 |