Contents
Principal Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1. Methodological Considerations
1. Situating Anthropology among Science, Philosophy, and Theology
2. Historical Perspectives on Humanity in Search of Immortality
3. Jesus Christ, the Redeemer: A Living Perspective for a Christian Anthropology
Part 2. The Historical Developmpment of the Doctrine of Grace
4. The Human Being according to Scripture: Image of God and Son of God
5. Grace and Justification of the Sinner in Paul
6. Grace as “Eternal Life” in John
7. Divinizing Grace in the Eastern Patristic Tradition
8. Grace, Sin, and Good Works in Augustine
9. “Created Grace” in the Medieval Period
10. Grace and Justification in Luther and the Council of Trent
11. The Modern Period: Grace, Freedom, and Anthropology
Part 3. The Christian Theology of Grace
12. The Historical Working Out of God’s Project to Establish an Intimate and Perpetual Filial Communion of Humans with the Trinity
13. Children of God in the Holy Spirit: The Life of Grace
14. Divine Life in Humans: God's "Inhabitation" of Man's Soul and "Created Grace"
15. Grace and Christian Life: The Infused Virtues and Gifts of the Holy Spirit
16. Grace and Human Freedom: Justification, Merit, Experience, and Mediations
17. The Need for Divine Grace
Part 4. Christian Anthropology
18. The Natural and the Supernatural
19. The Human Being: Union of Body and Soul
20. The Gift of God and Human Freedom
21. The Temporality and Historicity of the Human Being
22. Man Created in the Image of God, a Social Being
23. Humans Created in the Image of God as Man and Woman
24. Humans, Made in the Image of God, at Work in the World
25. The Human Person: Christianity's Contribution to Anthropology
Selected Bibliography
Index of Names
General Index