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Tables of Contents for Saints and Schemers
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
Thomas Glick
xiii
Introduction
3
1
Basic Research Perspectives
3
2
The Triple Thesis of the Book
5
2
The Underlying Dual Implicit Postulate
7
1
The Plan of the Study
8
2
Research Methodology
10
2
Some Final Observations
12
3
Part I Opus Dei: A Historical and Sociological Approach
15
202
Toward a Historical Sociology of Opus Dei: The State of the Question
17
14
The Historical Evolution of Opus Dei
17
2
History and Reification
19
2
History and Alternation
21
2
Three Approach Routes
23
8
Jose Maria Escriva
31
12
``The Father'': A Fragile Personal Identity?
31
10
Saint Josemaria?
41
2
The Founder of Opus Dei and His God
43
29
The Biographies of Monsignor Escriva
43
6
Some Aspects of the Founder's Personality
49
16
The Originality of Monsignor Escriva
65
2
Conclusion
67
5
From the Official Founding of Opus Dei to the Beginning of the Spanish Civil War (1928-1936)
72
17
Synopsis of the Official Version: The Founding of Opus Dei
72
4
Some Unanswered Questions
76
9
An Alternative Hypothesis
85
4
Three Years of War (1936-1939)
89
6
Synopsis of the Official Version: Escriva and the War
89
1
Some Questions: Escriva and the Franco Regime
90
2
Hypothesis
92
3
1939: The Way
95
17
General Observations
95
6
Another Small Study of The Way
101
11
The Establishment of Opus Dei in Spain (1939-1946)
112
26
Synopsis of the Official Version: Establishment of Opus Dei and First Juridical Recognition
112
8
A Few Questions
120
5
Opus Dei and the Society of Jesus
125
13
1946: Rome
138
12
General Observations
138
2
Chronology of a Decisive Year
140
1
Alvaro del Portillo's Activities in Rome
141
5
Father Escriva in Rome
146
4
The International Expansion of the Secular Institute of Opus Dei (1947-1958)
150
22
Synopsis of the Official Version: Approval of Opus Dei as a Secular Institute and International Expansion
150
15
Some Unresolved Questions: From Padre Escriva's Plan to Abandon Opus Dei (1948-1949) to the Attempt to Oust Him from Opus Dei (1951-1952)
165
2
The Theory of the Terzo Piano: A Little Exercise in Vaticanology
167
5
1958: Non Ignoratis, A Letter from Monsignor Escriva
172
17
General Observations
172
1
An Important Congress
173
8
Some Questions
181
8
The Consolidation of Opus Dei
189
28
A New Epoch
189
3
Expansion and Diversification
192
6
Spain
198
5
Rome
203
14
Part II The Opus Dei Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
217
60
Franco's Spain, Between Fatima and Brussels
219
11
Max Weber's Thesis and Opus Dei
219
3
Spanish Economic Development in the Sixties
222
3
Opus Dei and ``Technocracy''
225
5
The Education of Businessmen and the Management of Business
230
9
The Starting Point
230
3
The First ``Business Schools'': The Proposal of the Founders
233
3
IESE and ESADE
236
3
The Worldly Asceticism of Opus Dei
239
21
Preliminary Observations
239
2
The Rational Asceticism of Opus Dei
241
4
The Sanctification of Work in Opus Dei
245
11
A ``Catholic'' Worldly Asceticism
256
4
Conclusion: The Traditionalism and the Modernity of Opus Dei
260
17
The Paradoxes of Opus Dei
260
3
The Ethics of Conviction and the Ethics of Responsibility
263
11
Final Observations
274
3
Afterword
277
6
Bibliography
283
12
Name Index
295
6
General Index
301
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