Filaments

Introduction

Part 1: Ancients, Medievals, Moderns

1              Augustine Our Contemporary: The Overdetermined, Incomprehensible Self
2              Augustine’s Christomorphic Theocentrism
3              Trinitarian Theology and Spirituality: Retrieving William of St. Thierry for Contemporary Theology
4              Martin Luther’s Deus Theologicus
5              Michelangelo and the Catholic Analogical Imagination

Part 2: Mentors

6              Reinhold Niebuhr: God’s Realist
7              “All is grace”: Karl Rahner, a Rooted Radical
8              Paul Tillich and Contemporary Theology: The Method of Correlation
9              Bernard Lonergan and the Return of Ancient Practice in Philosophy and Theology

Part 3: Conversation Partners

10           Fragments of Synthesis: The Hopeful Paradox of Louis Dupré’s Modernity
11           The Strength of Reason: Franklin Gamwell’s Philosophical Theology and Moral Theory
12           Lindbeck’s New Program for Theology: A Critical Reflection
13           Jean-Luc Marion: Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Theology

Part 4: Prophetic Thought

14           Feminist Theology: The Unexampled Challenge
15           Arthur Cohen: The Holocaust as the Tremendum
16           Gustavo Gutiérrez and the Christian Option for the Poor
17           James Cone and African American Thought: A Discovery of Fragments

Part 5: Seekers of the Good

18           Simone Weil and the Impossible: A Radical View of Religion and Culture
19           Simone Weil: The Mask, the Person
20           Iris Murdoch and the Many Faces of Platonism
21           T. S. Eliot as Religious Thinker: Four Quartets

Acknowledgments
Name Index
Subject Index