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Preface vii
Introduction: The Road Traveled 1
From Salvation to Reflection 1
Our Proposed Itinerary 5
The Scriptures 7
Scriptural Principles 7
Awaiting Christ 7
Saint Paul 10
The Synoptic Gospels 12
Saint John 13
Conclusion 14
The Period of the "Fathers" and of the "Councils': Spiritual Worship and Mystical Theology 15
The Encounter with Hellenistic Culture 15
Christ 17
Understanding the Scriptures 19
The Divine Names 20
The Contribution of Philosophy 21
The Way to Orthodoxy 22
The Question of Evil 23
The Church 25
Conclusion 25
The Middle Ages: The Road to Christian Humanism 29
The Renewal of the Old Paradigm 30
Jesus' Humanity in Its Weakness 30
The Movement of the "Spiritual Franciscans" 32
Saint Bonaventure (1221-1274) 32
Acclimation to the New Thinking 34
Human Autonomy 34
The Scope of Language 35
Aristotle 36
Averroist Thought in the Universities 37
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) 37
The Question of Evil 39
Conclusions 40
Confrontation 40
Evaluation by the Church 41
Christian Reflection: Setting Off the Human 42
The Modern Period: The Enigma of Motion 45
A Decisive Turning Point 45
Transition from Antiquity to Modernity 45
A Hypothesis Regarding Modernity 48
Stages of Modernity 48
Triumphant and Wretched Modernity 50
Triumphant Modernity 50
The Nominalist Option 50
The New Shape of the World 51
The Mastery of the Human 51
The Awareness of Time and History 53
The Social Contract 55
Theology that is Rational 56
Wretched Modernity 58
The Anti-Modern Reform 59
The Modernity of the Reform 60
Conclusion to Triumphant and Wretched Modernity 62
Dialectical Modernity 63
The Return of Theology 63
Dialectical Materialism 65
Catholicism in Disarray 68
Conclusion: Critical Modernity 70
Theology in Outline 73
An Overview of the Route Traveled 73
A Hypothesis: Desire, Tragedy, and "Tragic Misfortune" 76
Time and Divine Covenant 79
Christianity and a Space for Memory 79
The End-Time 80
Anthropology 81
Tragedy, Love, and Death 81
"Tragic Misfortune": Human Failure 83
Christ 85
The Death and Resurrection of Christ: Tragedy 85
The Impact of Human Failure and the Nature of Redemption: "Tragic Misfortune" 86
God 87
The Language of Revelation and Trinitarian Love 89
The Limits of Talk about "Kenosis" 90
Brief Reflections on the Suffering of God 91
Church and the World 94
Liturgy 94
Ethics 95
Conclusion 99
Creation and Being 101
Ethics 103
Metaphysics 106
Creation 109
The Being of God 110
The Sacraments 113
Conclusion 114
Conclusion: Open to the Future 117
Toward a World in the Form of Christendom 119
Toward a World in the Form of Globalization 121
A Glossary of Terms 127
Writings in English by and about Ghislain Lafont, O.S.B. 137
Suggestions for Further Reading 139
Index of Names 145
Index of Subjects 147
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