Secular grace /
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| Author / Creator: | Freibach Heifetz, Dana, author. |
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| Uniform title: | Ḥesed ḥiloni. English |
| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2017] |
| Description: | xiii, 196 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Value inquiry book series ; volume 299 Ethical theory and practice Value inquiry book series ; v. 299. Value inquiry book series. Ethical theory and practice. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11017575 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- A. The Death of God
- B. Freedom Devoid of Alternatives to Religion
- C. Quasi-Religious Alternatives to Religion
- D. Secular Humanism
- E. Secular Grace
- F. The Structure and Methodology of the Book
- 1. Grace and Salvation in Christianity
- A. Relation
- The Personal Nature of the Relation of Grace
- B. Gift
- Grace and the Law
- C. Free Will to Give and to Receive
- D. The Subjective Aspect of Grace
- E. The Objective Aspect of Grace
- F. Outcomes of Grace: Salvation
- (a). Liberation
- (b). Love
- (c). Granting Meaning to Life
- (d). Selfhood
- 2. Secular Grace: First Thoughts
- A General Concept of Grace
- The Background of Secular Grace
- A. Relationship
- (a). The Sides of the Relationship of Grace
- (b). Equality and Reciprocity
- (c). Personal and Dialogic Relationship
- B. Gift
- Grace and Morality
- C. Free Will
- D. The Subjective Aspect: Mutual Love
- (a). Disinterest
- (b). Acceptance, Identification and Respect
- (c). Difficulties and Dangers
- (d). Secular Love and Christian Love
- E. The Objective Aspect: Acts of Grace
- (a). Manifestations of Grace
- (b). Practical Measure of Grace
- F. Outcomes of Grace
- (a). Liberation
- (b). Love
- (c). Meaning
- (d). Selfhood
- (e). Other Possible Outcomes
- 3. Dialogue, Encounter, Friendship, Gift
- A. I-Thou Relationship According to Buber
- (a). Self-Identity between Relation and Relationship
- (b). Characteristics of I-Thou Relationship
- (c). The Conditions for the Existence of I-Thou Relationship
- (d). Outcomes of I-Thou Relationship
- (e). I-Thou as Grace, Grace as I-Thou?
- B. The Encounter with the Face of the Other in the Thinking of Levinas
- (a). The World of Totality and the World of Infinity
- (b). Self Identity in the Presence of the Other
- (c). Fruits of the Ethical Relation to the Other
- (d). The Levinasian Encounter with the Other's Face and Secular Grace
- C. Gift and Generosity
- (a). What is a Gift
- (b). The Giver and the Receiver
- (c). The Measure of Giving
- (d). Dangers of Giving audits Difficulties
- (e). Secular Grace as a Gift
- D. Friendship
- (a). What is Friendship
- (b). Between Emotion and Choice
- (c). Scope of Friendship
- (d). Conditions for Establishing Friendship
- (e). Friendship and Selfhood
- (f). Fruits of Friendship
- (g). Difficulties and Dangers of Friendship
- (h). Friendship as Secular Grace
- 4. Secular Grace: Further Glance
- A. Secular Grace in Prose
- (a). The Grace-Path of Prince Myshkin
- (b). An Idiot, or: Prince Myshkin's Mistake
- (c). Reevaluating Prince Myshkin's Path
- B. Grace-relation with the Dead
- (a). Relation with the Dead
- (b). Secular Grace with the Dead
- C. Self-Grace
- 5. Secular Salvation?
- A. Secular Grace and Salvation
- (a). Ways of Individual Secular Salvation
- (b). The Secular Pilgrim and His Salvation
- (c). Secular Grace as a Path to Salvation
- B. Humanist, Existentialist, Secular Grace
- (a). Humanism
- (b). Existentialism
- (c). Secularism
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
