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Tables of Contents for For the Joy Set Before Us
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
xiii
The Problem of Self-Denial
1
26
A Premature Agreement
4
14
A Premature Dismissal
18
5
Can Self-Denial Be Sustained?
23
4
The Structure of Augustinian Caritas
27
32
The Four Loves
29
18
The One Love: Triune, Incarnate, Eschatological
47
5
``Uncertainty Everywhere''
52
7
The Grammar of Augustinian Continence
59
34
Higher Continence
61
6
Grasping and Clinging
67
11
Having by Not Having
78
4
Continence as the Work of God
82
11
Augustinian continence as a Response to the Gospel Imperative
93
26
Augustine's First Response: Continence, but Why?
95
5
A Premature Solution: Interior and Otherworldly Self-Denial
100
4
A Conflicted Return: Concrete Demands Again
104
7
What Kind of Cross? For What Kind of Church?
111
8
The Judgment of Augustinian Continence
119
24
Continence, Conversation, and the Possibility of an Augustinian Retrieval
121
3
Trial Balance: Augustine and Evangelical Self-Denial
124
4
Grasping at the End
128
11
``Has This Temptation Ceased?''
139
4
Sustaining Self-Denial
143
30
Theses and Tests
145
23
``In the Manner of Pilgrims''
168
5
Notes
173
64
Works cited
237
14
Index
251