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The Marianist Person at the Dawn of the
Twenty-first Century
Hugh W. Bihl, SM
111 pp., $8.00

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Table of Contents
 

Introduction (José María Arnaiz, SM)

Presentación  (José María Arnaiz, SM)
Présentation (José María Arnaiz, SM)
Author’s Note
Author’s Introduction
 
CHAPTER 1
THE PERSON IN MARIANIST TRADITION
The Marianist person in the Foundation
Permanence and Spatial Metaphors
Ahistorical and Augustinian
The Human Person According to the “Simler Para-digm”
The Marianist Person in the Post-1970 Era: A Radical Paradigm Shift
A New Way into the “Third Object”
An Integral Anthropology
Beyond Dichotomies and Static Understandings
 
CHAPTER 2

THE PERSON IN THE VISION OF VATICAN II

An Anthropological Paradigm Shift
Fuller Implications of the Shift
A Question: Which World?
 
CHAPTER 3
PERSONS IN RELATION
A recapitulation and a Looking Ahead
Who Is a Person?
A Person Is More Than an Individual
A Person Is a Unique Expression of a Nature
Personhood Demands Dialogue
Person, the Basic Ontological Category
Communion Is an Ontological Concept
Ectasis, A Transcending of the Self
 
CHAPTER 4
THE PERSON AND FREEDOM
A Many-sided Freedom
Self-Creation Through Choices
Mediatorship and Synergy
Synergy
The Stages of Freedom
Rahner
A Third Stage of Freedom: Raimundo Panikkar
A Need for Cultural Disarmament
 
CHAPTER 5
LIBERATION AND FREEDOM
Liberation, Praxis, and Social Analysis
Humans Are Active Agents in the Redeeming of History
Continuing Developments
Evaluation and Criticism
A Difficulty That Must Be Faced
Another View of Original Sin
Synergistic but Not Pelagian
 
CHAPTER 6
CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
Two Themes
A Preference for the Mystical
A Balanced Anthropology
How Preferential Should the “Option for the Poor” Be?
Reactions and a Response
Mythos and Logos
The Marianist Myth and its Logoi
 
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