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Tables of Contents for The Quest for Meaning
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Instead of an Introduction
1
6
1. Philosophic
7
16
The Question
8
3
Philosophic
8
2
Philosophy as Participation in History
10
1
Christians Who Philosophize
11
12
Faith
11
1
Culture
12
1
The Philosophy of Christians
13
1
Theology
14
2
The "Spirit" of Philosophy
16
1
Integration
17
1
Modern Philosophy
18
1
Experience
19
1
Autonomy of Reason?
20
1
Philosophic
21
2
2. Why Plato Now?
23
11
Diagnosis
26
3
Pleasure
26
1
Authenticity and Semblance
27
1
The Culture of Semblance and Pleasure
28
1
Philosophy
29
1
Plato's Ideal
29
2
Desire and Desires
30
1
The Philosopher in the City
31
3
3. Platonic and Christian Hope
34
14
Hope in the Phaedo
36
6
Christian Hope
42
1
Conversion
43
5
4. Fulfillment
48
25
The Question
50
1
Christianity and Judaism
51
8
Christianity and "Greece"
59
14
Plato's Ideal
60
2
Metanoia
62
3
Faith and Theory
65
1
Praeparatio Evangelica?
66
1
Plato and Christ
67
6
5. Anselm's Proslogion and Its Hegelian Interpretation
73
18
Hegel on Anselm
73
4
Anselm
77
10
Anselm Against Hegel
87
1
Two Remarks
87
4
6. Ascent: Plotinian Motifs in Bonaventure's Itinerary of the Mind to God
91
16
Plotinus' Travel Guide to God
92
4
Bonaventure's Guidance for the Encounter with God
96
11
Creation
99
1
History
100
1
The One (Chapter 5)
101
2
The Good (Chapter 6)
103
4
7. Bonaventure's Contribution to the Twentieth-Century Debate on Apophatic Theology
107
16
Bonaventure and Apophatic Theology
110
1
Desire for Wisdom
111
7
The Wisdom of the Cross
118
5
8. Life, Science, and Wisdom According to Descartes
123
26
9. Philosophy and Christianity (An Hour with Pascal)
149
21
Philosophy
149
4
Theory and Wisdom
153
3
Christianity
156
2
Christian and Philosopher
158
2
Pascal's Memorial
160
5
The Living God and the God of "Philosophy"
163
2
Philosophy and Belief
165
2
Can a Christian Be a Philosopher?
167
3
10. Leibniz on God and Suffering
170
25
Suffering
172
2
Suffering and Evil
174
3
Why Is There Evil?
177
2
The Utility of Evil
179
2
God and Freedom
181
3
The God of Leibniz
184
6
The Battle with God
190
1
Ignorance and Acceptance
191
2
Toward Peace
193
2
11. Hegel and Modern Culture
195
17
Hegel's Framework
197
3
Freedom
200
1
Culture
201
5
Absolute Spirit
206
2
Hegel Now?
208
2
Epilogue
210
2
12. The Significance of Levinas for Christian Thought
212
13
God
214
1
Salvation and the Law
215
1
Mysticism and Love
216
5
Death
221
1
Resurrection and Forgiveness
222
1
Autonomy and Heteronomy
223
2
Epilogue
225
4
Works Cited and Editions Used
229
6
Index
235