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Tables of Contents for The Divine Milieu
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword by Thomas M. King SJ
vii
Translators Note
xxvii
Preface
xxx
INTRODUCTION
1
7
PART ONE The Divinisation of Our Activities
1 The Christian problem of the sanctification of action
8
3
2 An incomplete solution: sanctification by intention alone
11
3
3 The definitive solution: completion of the world 'in Christo Iesu'
14
6
4 Communion through action
20
2
5 Christian perfection of human effort
22
6
A. Sanctification of human effort
23
3
B. Humanization of Christian effort
26
2
6 Detachment through action
28
8
PART TWO The Divinization of Our Passivities
1 Extent, depth and forms of human passivities
36
1
2 Passivities of growth: the two hands of God
37
4
3 Passivities of diminishment
41
14
A. Struggle with God against evil
44
1
B. Our apparent failure and its transfiguration
45
5
C. Communion through diminishment
50
1
D. True resignation
51
4
CONCLUSION TO PARTS ONE AND TWO General Remarks on Christian Asceticism
1 Attachment and detachment
55
6
2 The sense of the Cross
61
3
3 The spiritual power of matter
64
10
PART THREE The Divine Milieu
1 Attributes of the divine milieu
74
8
2 Nature of the divine milieu: the Universal Christ and the great communion
82
8
3 Growth of the divine milieu
90
23
A. The appearance of the divine milieu: the zest for being and the diaphany of God
91
3
B. Individual progress in the divine milieu: purity, faith and fidelity-the operatives
94
9
C. Collective progress in the divine milieu: the communion of saints and charity
103
10
Remarks on the individual value of the divine milieu
103
3
Intensification of the divine milieu through charity
106
3
Outer darkness and lost souls
109
4
EPILOGUE AWAITING THE PAROUSIA
113
6
Index
119