Theology and sanity /
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| Author / Creator: | Sheed, F. J. (Francis Joseph), 1897-1981. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Sheed & Ward, 1946. |
| Description: | x, 407 pages ; 22 cm x, p., 1 β., 407 p. 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1883594 |
Table of Contents:
- Preliminary
- 1. Religion and the mind
- (1) Seeing what the church sees
- (2) What does the church see?
- (3) Intellect helps will
- 2. Examination and intellect
- (1) How imagination can hinder intellect
- (2) Mystery and how the intellect may cope with it
- (3) The splendor of mystery
- (4) Keeping the intellect cleansed
- God
- 3. He who is
- (1) Errors about God
- (2) God is infinite existence
- (3) God is personal
- 4. The mind works on infinity
- (1) God transcends space
- (2) God transcends time
- (3) Infinite activity and changelessness
- (4) An exercise upon infinity
- (5) The going is hard
- 5. God tells man
- (1) Christ teaches us by being God
- (2) God transcends time
- (3) Infinite activity and changelessness
- (4) An exercise upon infinity
- (5) The going is hard
- 5. God tells man
- (1) Christ teaches us by being God
- (2) Christ teaches us by speaking of God
- 6. Three persons in one nature
- (1) Importance of the doctrine of the trinity
- (2) Person and nature
- (3) Three persons
- one God
- 7. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
- 1. The first person generates the second
- (2) The third person proceeds from the first and second
- (3) Processions in eternity
- 8. Some further precisions
- (1) Nature and person again
- (2) How are persons equal if distinct?
- (3) Reason and revelation
- 9. Concluding this part
- (1) Our Lord's teaching on the trinity
- (2) The trinity and creatures: appropriation
- (3) Rejoicing in the doctrine
- Creation
- 10. God as creator
- (1) Why God created
- (2) What it means to be created
- (3) Creation is by the trinity
- 11. The created universe
- (1) Spirit (likeness) and matter (imprint)
- (2) Grades of "is"
- (3) Eternity, aeviternity, time
- (4) Creation in time
- 12. Angels, matter, men
- (1) Angels
- (2) Matter, living and non-living
- (3) Man as the union of spirit and matter
- (4) Creation in time
- 13. The testing of angels and men
- (1) God's purpose for his creatures
- (2) Spirits meant for beatific vision
- (3) Testing of angels
- (4) Natural and supernatural equipment of Adam
- (5) The testing of Man
- 14. The fall of man
- (1) Loss of grace, damage to nature
- (2) Broken relation between man and God
- (3) Natural effects upon Adam's descendants
- (4) Original sin and man's helplessness
- (5) The devil's part
- 15. Between the fall and the redemption
- (1) What happened to religion
- (2) God's special choice of the Jews
- (3) The fullness of time.
- 16. The mission of Christ
- (1) The incarnation
- (2) What Christ came to do
- (3) How the God-man could effect satisfaction and restoration
- 17. The redeemer
- (1) The divine person with a human nature
- (2) The need of the supernatural
- (3) We must come to know him
- (4) His dual utterance
- 18. Redemption
- (1) Necessarily effective
- (2) What was effected
- overthrow of Satan, healing of breach between race and God
- (3) Christ died for all: not all will be saved
- 20. The kingdom
- (1) The function of the apostles
- (2) The church one and catholic
- (3) The function of Peter
- 21. Dispensing the gifts
- (1) A social religion
- (2) Truth taught infallibly
- (3) Life by sacraments
- (4) Continuance of sacrifice
- (5) A society divine and human
- 22. The mystical body of Christ
- (1) Cells of a living body
- (2) The fullness of redemption
- (3) Relation to Christ and to one another
- (4) The church re-lives his life
- (5) Our lady and the com-passion
- 23. Life in the body
- (1) Life-processes of the body
- (2) The mass
- (3) The human element
- 24. Life after death
- (1) Death's formidable finality
- (2) Eternal separation from God
- (3) Purgatory
- (4) Heaven
- 25. The end of the world
- (1) The body growing to maturity
- (2) Anti-Christ
- (3) The judgment: a new heaven and a new earth
- Oneself
- 26. Habituation to reality
- (1) Knowing the context
- (2) The theologian and the novelist
- (3) Study the created universe
- (4) Learn from poet and scientist
- 27. Habituation to man
- (1) Man's extraordinariness
- (2) The church alone sees man as spirit and matter, individual and social
- (3) Study man as union of spirit and matter
- (4) Study man as rational animal
- 28. The insufficiency of man
- (1) Action, mind, will doomed to frustration apart from God
- (2) The danger of devitalization
- (3) An unhappy generation
- 29. Sufficiency in the church
- (1) Meaning, hope, law unattainable without God
- (2) church provides all three
- (3) Why men do not see it
- 30. The life of grace
- (1) Meaning of indwelling: grace and virtues
- (2) Faith
- (3) hope and charity
- (4) The moral virtues
- (5) The first of the Holy Ghost
- 31. The landscape of reality
- (1) What we see
- (2) Complexity and simplicity
- (3) The laws of reality
- (4) The problem of suffering
- 32. Idyll and fact
- (1) Our mediocrity
- (2) Imperfect response to grace
- (3) Sanity points towards sanctity.