Jolana Poláková

• The Possibilities of Transcendence
  • Introduction
  • How to Be in Extreme Situations
  • Absolute Love
  • Truthfulness of Faith
  • Anthropological Terms of Christian Faith
  • Freedom and Relation
  • Grace
  • Bibliography
• Searching for the Divine in Contemporary Philosophy
  • Two Constitutive Movements of the Postmodern Era
  • Transcendence in European Philosophy
  • The Dominating Feature of Postmodern Spirituality: Search
  • Relative Transcendence
  • Absolute Transcendence
  • The Main Crossroads of Postmodern Spirituality
  • The Philosophy of Transcendence and Postmodern Spirituality
  • Bibliography
• The Essential Meaning of Dialogue

The Possibilities of Transcendence

The Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston (USA) – Queenston (Canada) – Lampeter (UK) 1995, ISBN 0-7734-8876-0

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword (Hans Waldenfels)

 

INTRODUCTION

Approach and Intention

The Core of the Conception and the Structure of Exposition

External Circumstances of Research

 

HOW TO BE IN EXTREME SITUATIONS

Introductory Notes

1. Entities

2. Humans

3. Values

4. Meaning

5. Being

6. Love

In Conclusion

 

ABSOLUTE LOVE

 

TRUTHFULNESS OF FAITH

Relation and Image

Faith and the World

Faith and the Absolute

God and Humans

In Conclusion

 

ANTHROPOLOGICAL TERMS OF CHRISTIAN FAITH

 

FREEDOM AND RELATION

Growth

Reflection

Unity

 

GRACE

 

Bibliography

 

Index