Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Issue of Hope as the Starting Point
A Subjective Approach to Faith
Reading the Human Condition Theologically
Ascent or Descent?
The Question of Happiness
Concluding Remarks
2. The Bible’s Challenge to Human Wisdom
Reading the Bible Theologically
Faith from the Viewpoint of Hope
Blindness and Illumination
Faith in the Logos Incarnate
Concluding Remarks
Faith and Love
First Truth
The Compass of Natural Reason
Three Aspects of Believing
Concluding Remarks
4. John Henry Newman: An Apology for Christianity
Real and Notional Apprehension
Inference Based on Converging Evidence
Inference and Real Assent in Christianity
Three Distortions of Faith
Concluding Remarks
5. Bernard Lonergan: Human Intentionality and Faith
Intentionality and Religious Conversion
Belief
A First Objection to Lonergan
A Second Objection to Lonergan
Intellectual Conversion and Critical Realism
Concluding Remarks
6. Three Structuring Dynamisms
A Matter of Emotion, of Reflection, or of Obedience?
Interaction
Hegemony or Alliance
The Issue of Self-Deception
The Encounter with Jesus Christ
Concluding Remarks
Meaning and Truth
Stages on the Way to Faith
Feelings and Insights
The Role of Religious Experience
The Christian Mediation of Religious Experience
Concluding Remarks
A Pastoral Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of Names
Subject Index