The Holy Thursday revolution /
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| Author / Creator: | Bruteau, Beatrice, 1930- |
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| Imprint: | Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, c2005. |
| Description: | xiv, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5636240 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on the Notes
- Part I. Domination as Worldview
- 1. The Ills of the World: The Politics of Domination
- Politics Rests on Perception
- Definition of "Domination"
- Calling to Mind Our Sins: War
- Tyranny, Oppression, and Slavery
- Economic and Ecological Domination
- Social Classes and Work
- Ethnic, Gender, and Family Domination
- 2. Our Basic Insecurity: The Psychology of Domination
- Mastery by Destructive Power
- Deference Ranks
- Domination and Submission
- Scarcity and Fear
- 3. How We Identify Ourselves: The Metaphysics and Logic
- Success and Failure
- Alienation: Why We Can't Love "Others"
- We Learn to See the World of Hurting
- Separated Selves
- The Logic of Mutual Negation
- Revolution
- Story I: The Jesus Ministry and Holy Thursday
- The Baptismal Vision
- Meditation and Reflection for Paradigm Shift
- Jesus' Social Program of Boundary-Breaking
- The Two Showings of Holy Thursday
- The Suppers Inaugurate the Kingdom
- The Multilevel Revolutionary Supper
- Revolution and Torah
- Part II. Person as the Basis for the New Paradigm
- 4. Person and Perichoresis: A New Metaphysics
- Jesus Offers Unconditional Positive Regard
- A New Selfhood: The Person
- The Nicodemus Story
- Eros and Agape: The New Logic
- You Have to Do It Yourself
- Perichoresis: The Metaphysics of the Trinity
- Creation Metaphysics
- 5. Living inside God: The Psychology of Love
- One Great Living Body
- Altruism in Our Genes
- Life in the Messianic Body
- The Communion of Friendship
- Saints and Mystics
- Togetherness in Creation
- 6. "In the Days of the Messiah": Friendship, Communion, Politics
- The Messiah Phase Transition
- Morality and Technology: The Enhancement of Being
- The World as the "Great Work"
- Everyone Unbound, Active, and Sharing
- Getting More from Less
- A Major Shift from Domination
- Part III. Human Nature
- 7. "You Can't Change Human Nature!"
- Domination Is Natural
- Human Nature Is an Animal Nature
- Power Differentials Are Cosmic Forces
- The Sociobiological Argument
- Social Status Values Can't Be Uprooted
- Don't Change It-We Like It!
- 8. It's the Nature of Nature to Change
- The Need for Change
- Changes Are Already Appearing
- Changing Views of Human Nature
- Human Nature Is Made for Changing
- The Natural Goodness of Human Nature and the Evolution of Cooperation
- Learning to Change: Redefining Success and Well-being
- 9. Memes, Mysticism, and Phase Transitions
- Changing the Whole System
- The Methods of Memes
- Mysticism without Mist
- The Noncontingent, Secure Self
- The Fiat and the Phases
- Story II: The Revelation at Sinai: A Phase Transition
- The Many-Leveled Torah/Teaching
- A Universal Revelation
- The Turning Point and the Supernatural Life
- The Proclamation of Liberation
- The World Filled with Holiness
- Part IV. The Covenant Community
- 10. Jesus and the Covenant Community
- The Historical Jesus
- The Social Situation in the Late Second Temple Period
- John the Baptist Announces the Kingdom of God
- Jesus Implements the Torah
- The Kingdom of God
- The Jesus Program
- The Covenant Community
- 11. Implementing the Friendship Covenant Community
- The Reality Ethic
- Religious Politics
- The Covenant with Earth
- Economic Welfare in a Global Age
- A Properly Human Life
- Education and the Cultures to Come
- Art, Sport, and Playfulness
- Technology and Morality
- Those outside the Covenant
- 12. Partners with God in Creation
- Sitting under One's Own Fig Tree: The Nathanael Story
- Human Nature: Creativity and Generosity
- Faith, Hope, and Imagination
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of Subjects
- Index of Names