Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction: On Cognitive Style

PART ONE: THREE SPHERES OF HUMAN REALITY

The Interhuman Sphere

The Social Sphere

The Personal Sphere

The Biological Aspect of Personal Being

Elemental Passions of Personal Being

PART TWO: A PARADIGM OF GOOD AND EVIL

Idolatry

Being-Founded

Corrupted Historicity and the Creation of Beauty

The Corrupted Passion of Subjectivity and the Freedom of Vitality

The Corrupted Passion of the Interhuman and Agapic Freedom

The Corrupted Passion for Reality and the Freedom of Wonder

The Corruption and Freedom of Bodily Life

Alienation and Communion: The Redemption of the Interhuman

Subjugation: The Structure of Social Evil

Social Redemption

Redemptive Communities

Index

Edward Farley is Buffington Professor of Theology at Vanderbilt Divinity School.