additional to those included in the preceding pages
Table of Contents
(Introduction & Chapters 1 - 6)
PREFACE:
INTRODUCTION: The human good is pluralistic and individuality enriches. I was brought up as and remain a Roman Catholic. What does this mean to me? My Profession of Faith - a prayerful commitment. As a priest I feel my first duty is to show respect for Truth by word and example. This implies opening oneself to others and being open to their considerable complexities. This emphasis on sharing rules out any rigid adherence to a structured presentation.
CATHOLIC EXISTENTIALISM: I am in a sense an existentialist. Existentialism in the Greek tragedies, the Sophists, Job, Socrates, Augustine, Bernard of Clairveaux. Pascal's appeal to the heart. Kierkegaard on freedom, anguish, faith and the emotions. The existentialist call for authenticity. Blondel as a Christian philosopher. Maréchal's transcendental refutation of Kant. Coreth and the metaphysics of questioning as a personal performance. Unamuno on the frustrations of freedom, the contradictions of life, the truth of fiction, the irrationality of faith in immortality, tools, society, talking, self-consciousness and imagination. Death as the ultimate revolution, and trust in resurrection as a more effective liberation from bodily frustration than the sexual orgy. Marcel's subjective approach to philosophising and his notion of mystery. Being in Parmenides, Aristotle, Scotus, Suarez, Hegel, Cajetan, Aquinas and Marcel. Marcel on man's vocation as a mystery emerging from recollection in his situation, and his call for fidelity in love. How to keep a personal journal. The lack of system in Marcel's journal contrasted with the systematic existentialism of Jaspers. Jaspers found philosophy more useful than psycho-pathology. The elements of child development, including socialisation, identity establishment, and imagination. The importance of stories.
THE CHRISTIAN MESSAGE: The economy of salvation as the theological plot of the Catholic story. The theme of the Covenant in the Old and New Testaments. The moral to the Bible story: joyful fidelity to God's law of love. Saint Paul on the necessity of the cross.
LEARNING TO TRUST: In today's open society the Catholic story may not command assent. The value of sensitivity and wonder. The purpose of professing oneself a Catholic is to give praise to God. Many stories are false and so there is need of self-critical philosophising in the interests of objectivity. Existential anxiety hinders development, especially when a person needs a total conversion. Education as initiation into the human learning community. The importance of play. The meaning of art. Seven vehicles of meaning. Four patterns of experience. Eight theological functions. The need for total openness. Symbolic man's distrust of theory. Jung's failure to understand Aquinas. The cerebrum and the cerebellum. Male power in the Church and the refashioning of woman's rôle: historical reflections. The femininity of God. The Second Vatican Council's promise of reform. The psychological dynamics of human groups. Creative chaos is better than a stultifying organisation. Fidelity to inspiration should be lifelong.
MORAL CONVERSION: Although Aquinas is hard to understand we need his wisdom today. The nature of personal conversion. The individual is not a mere bundle of socially conditioned reflexes and even when free from neurosis needs to question in order to grow as a person. The true nature of conscious acts. Growth in understanding is growth in being. Most men have the actual possibility of leading a moral life. The shortcomings of various philosophical theories of morality. The true nature of ethical feeling in the light of Ryle and Aristotle. Moral values and the good life. The need for a divine revelation. The nature of moral conversion. Freedom-from and freedom-for. Emotional sincerity does not preclude the existence of laws.
RELIGIOUS CONVERSION: The superficial meaning of religious conversion and the ecumenical movement. The schism between Orthodox and Roman Catholicism. The Church's need of conversion. Personal nature of religious conversion. Atheism in every heart. Vatican II on atheism. A critical discussion of Wren-Lewis's What Shall We Tell The Children? in which I stress that trust is an experience not an experiment, with an account of Aquinas's views on the nature of freedom and various other notes and comments. A criticism of Flew's God and Philosophy with remarks on the need for self-knowledge and the difficulty of intellectual conversion. Theism is implicit in the moral life. What self-knowledge is and is not. The Trinity as a revealed mystery the Church invites us to understand in the light of faith and a proposed way of understanding it with the help of a psychological analogy, based on self-knowledge. Interpersonal trust: in others and in Christ.
THE QUESTION OF EVIDENCE: The views of Cardinal Newman and Franz Brentano. Bernard Lonergan's account of the nature of knowledge according to Aquinas: five stages in knowing. Lonergan's contemporary account of knowing as a dynamic structure. Attempt at an alternative formulation of his account focussed on questioning as performance. Final remarks.
ABIMELECH 41
ABNER 41
ABRAHAM 40, 42-3
Adnabod, gwybod 95-9
Saint ANSELM of Canterbury 81, 92
ANTISTHENES 65
Apology 15
Saint Thomas AQUINAS 30, 39, 52, 53, 57, 60, 61, 82, 84, 95, 109, 114
ARCHITECTURE 48
ARIANISM 73
ARISTIPPUS 64
ARISTOTLE 29, 38, 51, 60, 61, 64, 67, 82, 84, 94-5, 116
ART 48-9, 75-6, 80, 85, 104
Saint Francis of ASSISI 75, 87
ATHEISM 77-8
Saint AUGUSTINE of Hippo 15, 46, 57, 62, 81, 115
Marcus AURELIUS 46
BABYLON 43
BANEZ 83
Karl BARTH 92
Roland BARTHES 5
Ludwig von BEETHOVEN 49
BENEDICTINES, Order of Saint Benedict 14
BENTHAM 64
Berîth see COVENANT
How to ride a BICYCLE 96
William BLAKE 91, 97
Maurice BLONDEL 17-8
Archbishop BOSSUET 76
C. BOUGLÉ 62
Franz BRENTANO 108-9
BUDDHISM 64
D.B. BURRELL 117-8
CAJETAN 30
CALVARY 89-90
Don Nazareno CAMILLERI S-5
CANON LAW 54,72,75,88
Carlos CASTANEDA 52
Catechism of the Catholic Church S-5
CAUSES, CAUSALITY 38-9, 74-5, 82-4, 110-2
Christian CELIBACY 87-8
CEREBRUM, CEREBELLUM 53, 55
CHANAAN, CHANAANITES 41
CHAOS 28, 56, 69, cfr note 124
CHARLEMAGNE 74
CHILD DEVELOPMENT 34-7
Saint John CHRYSOSTOM 73
Saint Bernard of CLAIRVEAUX 16
COMMUNICATION (& SOCIAL DEALIENATION) 76-7, 103-4
Auguste COMTE 64
CONFESSION 45-6
Confessions of St. Augustine 15, 46
CONSTANTINE 73
CONSTANTINOPLE 73-4, 76
Definition of Religious CONVERSION 76
COPTIC Christianity 55
Emmerich CORETH 18-21
COVENANT 40-3
CRITERION 23, 108, 112, 114, 115
Critique of Pure Reason 18
CRUSADES 75
CYNICS 75
DANCE, DANCING 48
The Prophet DANIEL 69
DANTE 52
Charles DARWIN 64
King DAVID 41, 42
DEATH, DYING 25-8, 58
René DESCARTES 62, 66
DIALECTIC 24
Personal DIARY 31-4
Diathnke see COVENANT
Didascalion 41
DIOCLETIAN 73
DIONYSUS 33
divertissement 16, 90
DOMINICANS, Order of Preachers 30
DREAMS, Nightmares 24, 33, 37
DURANDUS 83
DURKHEIM 62
ECONOMY OF SALVATION 38-40
EDUCATION 47-8, 51, 56, 79
EINSTEIN 78
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION 48
EPICURUS 64
Esprit de finesse, esprit de géométrie 16
EURIPIDES 63-4
Patterns of EXPERIENCE 50
Hermaphrodite FAITH 25
C. R. FAY 114
FEEL, FEELING 66-9
FEMININITY OF GOD 54
Filioque 74
FIRST PRINCIPLES 112-3
Joseph FLETCHER 65
Professor A.G.N. FLEW 92-3, 97, 98
Council of FLORENCE 73
Controlled FOLLY 52
King FRANCIS I 74
FREEDOM - dependent on four factors 82
FREEDOM-FROM and FREEDOM-FOR 71
FREE MASONS 55
Sigmund FREUD 13, 64, 78
FUTUROLOGISTS 27, 87
GALILEO 80,117
GANDHI 71
Genesis 42
GIBEONITES 41
GNOSTICISM 76 (True Gnosis excludes gnosticism.)
GORGIAS 15
Grammar of Assent 108, 109
GROUP PROCESS, GROUP CULTURE 55-6, 104
Letter to the HEBREWS 43
HEGEL 30
Martin HEIDEGGER 119-20
Henoticon 73
HERCULES 53, 54
Rabbi HESCHEL 45
Thomas HOBBES 62
HOREB 42
HORIZON 19, 20, 46, 47, 51, 56, 68
Victor HUGO 26-7
HUTCHESON 64
Julian HUXLEY 64
ICONOCLASTS 73
Transcendental IMPERATIVE 47, 69
INFALLIBILITY 9, 12, 108, 111, 120
INITIATION 47, 53
Insight - A Study of Human Understanding 114
Isaiah 40
ISRAEL, ISRAELITES, JEWS 41, 54,75
JABESHITES 41 JACOB 41
William JAMES 67
Arthur JANOV 59
JANSENISM 81
Karl JASPERS 34
JEREMIAH 42
JERUSALEM 28, 73
JESUS CHRIST 9, 10-12, 25-8, 38-40, 43-4, 51, 72, 75, 79, 80, 89-90, 104-5, 121
JOB 15
JOCASTA 63
Saint JOHN THE EVANGELIST 27, 43
JONATHAN 41
JOSUE 41
Carl G. JUNG 53, 57
Emmanuel KANT 18, 94
Søren KIERKEGAARD 16-7
Spiritual KINAESTHETIC SENSE 23, cfr note 192
LABAN 41
LAO-TSE 97
LAST JUDGMENT 116, 121
Canon LAW 54, 72, 75, 88
Natural LAW 41, 44, 71
LEVI 42
LÉVY-BRUHL 62
LITERATURE 48, 88
Peter LOMBARD 81
Bernard LONERGAN 47, 49051, 109, 114, 117-8
King LOUIS XIV 74
Opium and LSD 28
Gabriel MARCEL 28-9, 31, 34
Joseph MARÉCHAL 18
MARXISM 55, 62, 65, 78
MARY OF NAZARETH 9, 11, 54, 75
Vehicles of MEANING 49-50
Thomas MERTON 14, S-5
Method in Theology 51
MITHRAS 53
MOAB 42
MOLINA 83
MONOTHELITISM 73
Public MONUMENT 41
MUSIC 48-9
MYSTERY 29, 31, 47, 54-5, 88, 92, 97, 103
NAHASH 41
NATURAL LAW 41,44,71
NEBUCHODREZZAR 41
John Henry Cardinal NEWMAN 107-9
NEWTON 52
Friedrich NIETZSCHE 62
NOAH 42
OBJECTIVITY 47, 114
William of OCKHAM 62
OPEN SOCIETY, NUDITY AS EMOTIONAL OPENNESS 45, 80,91
ORGIES 26, 27
ORPHICISM 53-4
PARMENIDES 29
Parts of Animals 51
Blaise PASCAL 16, 81, 90, 95
Pope PAUL VI 11
Saint PAUL of Tarsus 12, 42-4, 76, 91
PELAGIANISM 81, cfr Note 152
PERSONAL JOURNAL 31-4
Saint PETER 11
Phædo 15
PHILIP THE CHANCELLOR 81
PHINEAS 42
Phśnissæ 63-4
Pontius PILATE 10
Pope PIUS XII 61
PLATO 57
PLAY 47-8, 52
Michael POLANYI 16
POLIN 65
PRESENCE, PRESENT OF GOD 54, 75, 79
PRIMACY 74-5 (“primary” on p. 74, line 40, should read “primacy”)
First PRINCIPLES 112-3
PROSTITUTION 24
Psalms 40
PUFENDORF 62
QABALA 54
Don QUIXOTE 25
Electromagnetic RADIATION 48
Karl RAHNER 29
Definition of RELIGIOUS CONVERSION 76
REVOLUTION 26-7
RITUAL 48-74
Bishop John ROBINSON of Woolwich 80
Carl ROGERS 13-4
ROME 19, 73, 74, 76
Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU 46
Gilbert RYLE 66-7
SABBATH OBSERVANCE 41, 42, 79
Hugh of SAINT VICTOR 41
Saint Francis of SALES 105-6
SALESIAN Congregation of Saint John Bosco 12
SALESIAN Pontifical University 11
Jean-Paul SARTRE 65, 98
East-West SCHISM 73-5
Evkatrrin SCHMIDT 78
SCHOPENHAUER 64
Dun SCOTUS 29, 30 (“Dominican” needs to be replaced by “Franciscan” on p. 30, line 1)
SCULPTURE 48
SEX, SEXUAL INTEGRATION 26
SHAFTESBURY 64
William SHAKESPEARE 25, 63
Shekinah 54
Percy Bysshe SHELLEY 116-7
SIDGWICK 64
SITUATION ETHICS 65-6
SMITH 64
Open SOCIETY 45, 80
SOCRATES 15 SOPHIA 54
Starting-Point of Metaphysics 18
Max STIRNER 65
STOICS 65
STUART MILL 64
SUAREZ 30
SYMBOLS, SYMBOLIC CONSCIOUSNESS 43, 49, 51-3, 80, cfr note 160
Frère Roger of TAIZÉ 87
Samuel TENENBAUM 13
TERTULLIAN 23
THEOREM OF THE SUPERNATURAL 81
Saint THERESA of Lisieux 28
TOOLS 24
David TRACY 51-3
TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS 36, 58-9, 70, 76
TRANSCENDENTAL IMPERATIVE 47, 69
Treatise on the Love of God 105
Council of TRENT 10, 11, 75
TRINITY of Persons in One God 99-103
Troilus and Cressida 63
ULYSSES 63
Miguel de UNAMUNO 21-5, 32, 98
UTOPIA, UTOPIANISM 86
First VATICAN Council 11, 41, 75, 92
Second VATICAN Council 55, 77
Verbum - Word and Idea in Aquinas 109
What Shall We Tell the Children? 79
WITCHES, WITCHCRAFT 46, 55, 75
Ludwig WITTGENSTEIN 117
John WREN-LEWIS 79-80, 84-92, 114
YAHWEH 39
ZEDEKIAH 41 47
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