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Tables of Contents for God's Ecstasy
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
PREFACE
9
2
One THE CONTEMPLATIVE AND THE COSMOS
11
12
A Renewed Sense of the Sacred
12
1
Living Together in Wholeness
13
2
Moving and Growing
15
3
Religious Metaphors
18
3
The Incarnation and the Theotokos
21
2
Two GOD AS PERSON-COMMUNITY
23
14
God as the Ultimate Ground of Being
24
3
God as Person, God as Love
27
3
Persons Must Exist in Community
30
2
The Self-Creating Community
32
5
Three THE INCARNATION AND THE NATURE OF FINITUDE
37
21
The Theocosmic Exegete
38
3
The Child of the Trinity
41
3
The Nature of Finitude
44
3
Relations among Discrete Beings
47
1
Individuals, Interactions, and Emergents
48
3
Scarcity and Competition
51
3
The Value of the Finite
54
4
Four THE SELF-CREATING UNIVERSE: PATHWAY TO THE STARS
58
24
Problems of the Origin
60
3
The Cosmic Parameters
63
2
The Big Bang
65
2
Problems and Proposals
67
2
The Inflation Scenario
69
3
The Phase Transitions
72
3
The Free Lunch
75
2
On to the Stars!
77
5
Five THE COSMOS AS GOD'S ECSTASY
82
5
Six THE SELF-CREATING UNIVERSE: PATHWAY TO LIFE
87
23
Symbiotic Chemistry
88
2
Bond Formation
90
2
Molecules for Life: Sugars, Nucleic Acids, and Proteins
92
4
Self-Assembly and Autocatalysis
96
3
The Magic Circle
99
4
The Code and the Cell
103
7
Seven THE EVOLUTION OF EVOLUTION
110
29
The First Cells
112
4
Bacteria Rule the World
116
2
The Great Oxygen Poisoning and the Eukaryotic Cell
118
2
The Origin of Sex
120
3
Sexual Strategies
123
2
Selection and Adaptation
125
4
Endless Innovation and the Gene Wars
129
4
Modular Assembly, Junk DNA, and Toolboxes
133
6
Eight THE SELF-CREATING UNIVERSE: PATHWAY TO CONSCIOUSNESS
139
24
The Value of Sensation
141
2
The Neuron and Its Assemblies
143
6
We Talk to Each Other
149
3
What Is Consciousness?
152
5
Explanations, Primitives, and Incarnation
157
6
Nine THEOTOKOS: THE ECSTASY OF THE COSMOS AS GOD
163
18
Memes in the Darwin Machine
163
3
The Evolution of Evil
166
3
The Moral Era
169
5
The Ecstasy of the Theotokos
174
2
Cosmic Incarnational Mysticism
176
5
NOTES
181
16
INDEX OF NAMES
197
2
INDEX OF SUBJECTS
199