Communicates the depth and power of the Christian ‘wisdom tradition’, and the promise of its dramatic rebirth in our time

ContentsINTRODUCTION1. A Preliminary Overview2. The Bias3. The Taste4. Thinking about Wisdom5. The Christian Wisdom Tradition6. The Eclipse of Wisdom in the West7. The Time of Vatican II: Toward a Rebirth of Christian Wisdom8. The Way of Wisdom9. Four Historical Moments10. Four Movements11. Spirit and HistoryMOVEMENT I: THE SAPIENTIAL AWAKENING1. Wonder and Awakening2. The Sapiential Event and Its Eclipse3. The Sapiential Awakening of the Twentieth Century4. Henri de Lubac: The Anatomy of Christian Wisdom5. fean Leclercq: The Two Medieval Theologies6. Cipriano Vagaggini: Between Two Wisdoms7. The Quaternary Unfolding of the Christ-Mystery8. The Revolution of |esus9. Rationalization of the Mystery10. Thomas Merton: Opening Christian Wisdom (I)11. Karl Rahner: Opening Christian Wisdom (II)12. The Paradox of Christian Wisdom: The Word of the Cross13. ConclusionMOVEMENT II: THE EASTERN TURN1. The New East-West Relationship2. Nonduality3. Christian Nonduality I4. Baptismal Initiation: Point of Contact with the Eastand Pivot of Identity5. Theological Corollaries of the Principle of NondualBaptismal Identity6. (I) Breaking through the Container of Dualistic Christianity7. (II) Unitive Interpretation of the Christ-mystery8. (III) Unitive Interpretation of the New Testament9. (IV) A New Theology Centered in the ExplicitUnitive Principle10. (V) Unitive Anthropology11. (VI) Fullness at the Beginning12. (VII) The Trajectory of Life: From Baptism to Eucharist13. (VIII) Contemplation as Conscious Experienceof Baptismal Identity14. (IX) History Understood in the Lightof Unitive Self- realizationMOVEMENT III: THE WESTERN TURN1. Modernity2. The Vocation of the West3. The Shape of Western History4. Renaissance5. The Modern Individual6. Freedom7. |esus' Revolution and the History of the West8. Participation and History9. Wisdom and the West10. The Shadow and the Destiny of the WestMOVEMENT IV: THE GLOBAL TURNl. Postmodernity2. Interpretations of Globalization3. Toward a Global Consciousness4. Resistance to Incarnation5. The Descent of History6. Globd Christianity: The Southern Turn7. Christian Nonduality Ift lncarnation8. The Incarnation of WisdomEPILOGUENOTESBIBLIOGR,APHYINDEX