Part I: Human Knowledge and Metaphysics

1. On Human Knowledge
   • Science and Philosophy 3
   • The Value of Knowledge 11
   • Poetic Knowledge 16
2. On Artistic Judgment
3. On Knowledge Through Connaturality
   • St. Thomas and the Notion of Knowledge Through Connaturality 22
   • Mystical Experience 34
   • Poetic Knowledge 25
   • Moral Experience 26
   • Metaphysics and Knowledge Through Connaturality 29
4. Philosophical Co-operation and Intellectual Justice
   • Doctrinal Exchanges 32
   • The Mutual Intelligible Envelopment of Philosophies 39
   • The Purification of the Subjective Powers 47
5. The Immortality of the Soul
   • The Views of Theodor Fechner 51
   • "Subjective" Immortality 52
   • Personal Immortality 54
6. The Immanent Dialectic of the First Act of Freedom
   • The First Act of Freedom 66
   • The Implications of the First Act of Freedom 68
   • A Non-conscious Knowledge of God 69
   • Nature and Grace 71
   • How Faith Plays Its Part in the Process 75
   • Theological Parenthesis 78
   • About the Knowledge of God Involved in the Choice of the Moral Good 81
   • About Pseudo-atheism and Real Atheism 83
7. A New Approach to God
   • The Rational Pre-philosophical Knowledge of God's Existence 86
   • A Theocentric Humanism 92
   • Faith vs. Atheism 96
8. The Meaning of Contemporary Atheism
   • Various Kinds of Atheism 103
   • The Two-fold Inconsistency of Contemporary Atheism 105
   • The Atheist and the Saint 108
   • The Saint and Temporal History 113

   Part II. Faith and the Human Community

9. To Exist with the People
   • Class, Race, People 122
   • The Connotations of the Word "People" 123
   • A Fundamental Choice 124
   • To Exist With and Suffer With the People 125
   • Political Action and Evangelic Action 127
10. The Christian Teaching of the Story of the Crucifixion
11. The End of Machiavellianism
    • Machiavelli's Machiavellianism 134
    • Because Men Are Bad 136
    • Civilized Cynicism and a Pessimism Comforted by an Oversimplified Idea of Morality 137
    • A Merely Artistic Concept of Politics 139
    • Machiavellianism and the Philosophy of the Common Good 142
    • The Great Problem 145
    • Machiavellianism Does Not Succeed 148
    • The Specific Structure of Political Ethics 153
    • Justice and Nature in Human History 156
    • Hypermoralism and Machiavellianism 160
    • Absolute Machiavellianism and Moderate Machiavellianism 163
12. The Pluralist Principle in Democracy
    • A Qualified Agreement 165
    • Points of Disagreement 168
13. The Possibilities for Co-operation in a Divided World
    • Three Problems 174
    • Can Intellectually Divided Men Co-operate in Practical Matters? 179
14. Christian Humanism
    • The Secularization of the Christian Image of Man 185
    • The Modern Man 186
    • The Crisis of Our Civilization 188
    • Marxist and Racist Delusions 189
    • The Idea of a New Christian Civilization 192
    • The True Image of Man 195
    • The Vertical Movement and the Horizontal Movement in Man's Life 197
15. A Faith to Live By
16. The Ways of Faith
    • The Wonders of faith 205
    • The Average Functioning of Intelligence in Our Time: the Crystallization in the Sign 206
    • The Primacy of Verification over Truth 208
    • Faith and Unity of Inspiration 211
    • A Certain Attitude in Regard to Truth 212
    • A Certain Attitude in Regard to Wisdom 214
    • A Certain Attitude in Regard to Freedom 215
    • The Descent of the Gospel Within Us 216
    • About a New Christendom 217
17. Blessed Are the Persecuted

Acknowledgements