| 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 |