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Tables of Contents for Symbols of Transcendence
Chapter/Section Title
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FOREWORD
XIII
4
Louis Dupre
PREFACE
XVII
2
ABBREVIATIONS
XIX
2
INTRODUCTION
XXI
CHAPTER ONE JUSTIFICATION OF "SYMBOL" AS PRIMARY EXPRESSION OF RELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING
1
59
A. "RELIGIOUS"
2
8
1. Neither Purely Objective nor Purely Subjective
2
2
2. The Religious Attitude is Dialectical
4
3
3. The Religious Attitude is Symbolic
7
1
4. The Religious Attitude Integrates
8
2
5. Summary Sentence
10
1
B. THEOLOGICAL JUSTIFICATION
10
21
1. Introductory Comments on Mysticism
11
8
2. Image Mysticism and Negative Theology
19
8
3. Trinity
27
3
4. Conclusion
30
1
C. PHILOSOPHICAL JUSTIFICATION
31
15
1. Friedrich Schleiermacher
31
6
2. G. W. F. Hegel
37
8
3. Conclusion
45
1
D. JUSTIFICATION OF METHOD
46
14
1. Philosopher or Theologian?
46
5
2. Phenomenological Method
51
1
a. Question of Transcendence
52
4
b. Question of Real Existence
56
1
c. Question of Truth
57
1
3. Concluding Comment
58
2
CHAPTER TWO SYMBOL THEORY IN GENERAL
60
64
A. FOUNDATIONS
61
15
1. Ernst Cassirer
61
1
a. Roots
62
3
b. Philosophy of Symbolic Form
65
3
c. Philosophy of Culture
68
1
2. G. W. F. Hegel
69
1
3. Susanne Langer
70
1
a. Sign: Signal, Symbol
70
2
b. Art
72
4
B. FRAMING SYMBOLISM WITHIN METAPHYSICS AND CULTURE
76
8
1. Metaphysics and Culture
77
3
2. Symbols and Metaphysical Ultimacy
80
4
C. THREE GENERAL PATTERNS
84
38
1. Form
85
5
2. Representation
90
5
3. Language
95
1
a. Language in General
95
3
b. Religious Language
98
4
i. Thetic
102
1
ii. Two essential conditions
103
4
iii. Paradoxical
107
5
iv. Relation to ordinary language
112
3
v. Symbolic
115
7
D. SUMMARY
122
2
CHAPTER THREE SYMBOL THEORY APPLIED
124
64
A. SPECIFIC RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS
124
44
1. Ritual
125
1
a. Preliminary Comments
125
4
b. Time in Ritual and Myth
129
11
c. Play
140
5
d. Other Functions of Ritual
145
2
2. Sacraments
147
1
a. As Ritual Action
147
1
b. Sacramental Efficacy
148
4
c. Word and Deed
152
1
3. Religious Art
153
1
a. Aesthetics and Form
154
1
b. Aesthetic and Ordinary Perception
155
2
c. Aesthetic and Religious Experience
157
7
d. Religious and Nonreligious Art
164
4
B. THE UNIQUENESS OF RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS
168
18
1. God
169
2
2. Sacred
171
1
a. Initial Position
171
2
b. Revised Position
173
5
3. Transcendence
178
1
a. Transcendence as Universal
179
2
b. Transcendence as Key
181
3
c. Transcendence as Unique Referent
184
2
C. SUMMARY
186
2
CHAPTER FOUR INABILITY TO MAKE RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS: THE MODERN PREDICAMENT
188
86
A. FROM PREMODERNITY TO MODERNITY
189
24
1. Nature: Cosmic, Human, Transcendent
191
2
2. Transcendence Torn From Nature
193
1
a. Synthesis with Aristotle: Causality
194
2
b. Synthesis with Aristotle: Nature and Grace
196
2
c. Disintegration of Medieval Syntheses
198
3
d. Attempts to Regain the Syntheses
201
1
e. Implications for Religious Symbols
202
1
3. Human Subject Torn from Cosmos
203
1
a. Transition to Objectivism
203
2
b. Mastery Over Nature
205
2
c. Loss of Selfhood
207
4
d. Implications for Religious Symbols
211
1
4. Conclusion
212
1
B. THE MODERN SITUATION
213
27
1. Late Modernity or Postmodernity
214
6
2. The Loss of the Sense of Transcendence
220
3
3. Effects of the Loss of Transcendence on Religion in General
223
2
4. Effects of the Loss of Transcendence on Religious Symbols
225
1
a. Ritual
225
7
b. Sacraments
232
2
c. Religious Art
234
4
5. Conclusion
238
2
C. HOPE FOR THE FUTURE
240
34
1. Failed Attempts to Regain Transcendence
241
6
2. Dupre's General Assessment
247
2
3. Dupre's Alternative
249
1
a. Historical Precedent: Devout Humanism
249
2
i. Ignatius of Loyola
251
3
ii. Francis de Sales
254
2
iii. Implications for today
256
2
b. Contemporary Key: Transcendent Selfhood
258
1
i. Personal not individual
259
5
ii. Unity of experience and message
264
4
iii. Negative theology and mysticism
268
2
4. Conclusion
270
4
CONCLUSION THE TAPESTRY OF DUPRE'S THOUGHT
274
7
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LOUIS DUPRE
281
87
A. BOOKS AND ARTICLES BY LOUIS DUPRE COMPLETE LIST TO JUNE 1997
281
47
B. REVIEWS BY LOUIS DUPRE COMPLETE LIST TO JUNE 1997
328
10
C. WORKS ON THE THOUGHT OF LOUIS DUPRE
338
4
D. REVIEWS OF LOUIS DUPRE'S BOOKS
342
22
E. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF LOUIS DUPRE
364
4
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ADDITIONAL SOURCES
368
12
INDEX OF NAMES
380