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INDEX acknowledgment, 1, 3, 13, 14, 16, 18, 39, 42, 44, 45, 47–51, 53, 56, 60, 63–64, 65, 100, 115, 119, 121, 123, 125, 127, 133, 135, 136, 137, 140, 154n15; avoidance of, 50, 82, 134; failure of, 49, 79, 107; first-person, 54, 59; implications of, 49, 50; and knowledge, 53, 54, 60, 66; of limitation, 66, 70; mutual, 78, 126; and separation, 52–53, 66; third-person, 59. See also under God; other, the; self actions, human, 19, 73, 83, 85–86, 91–94, 122, 126, 134, 135–136; consequences of, 81, 85, 86, 90, 96, 99–100, 101; indebtedness of, 86–87; and speech, 82, 91–93, 100, 136, 142, 156n13, 156n28; and suffering, 98; violent, 110 activity, 41, 60, 111, 134, 137; false, 42, 136, 137, 142; fear of, 135; hyperactivity, 110; and passivity, 19, 42, 135–136 Adam, 73–74, 76, 78–79, 97. See also Eden; Fall, the aesthetic, the, 12, 14, 29, 33, 34–35, 43, 46, 65, 99, 149n17 alienation, 3, 24, 40, 43, 68, 72, 76, 78, 140, 157n29; self-alienation, 56 alterity, 37, 102, 105, 106, 108 ambivalence, 31, 68, 71. See also sublime: ambivalence of art, 4, 16, 22, 26–29, 30, 47, 52, 59, 65, 91, 159n4; artists, 16, 28, 52, 92; criteria for, 27; genuineness of, 27 atheism, 3, 5, 22, 31 Augustine, 1, 12, 14, 47, 55–59, 64, 72, 74, 97, 130, 152n15, 152n21, 154n11, 154n17 Austin, J. L., 1, 7, 8, 10–11, 14, 35, 39, 61, 82–91, 93–96, 121, 155n6, 156n13 authority, 5, 27, 31, 90, 94, 149n17, 158n20; divine, 29; genuineness of, 28; philosophical , 8, 58 autonomy, fear of, 135; human, 3, 31, 92, 106, 145 avoidance, 18, 123, 134. See also acknowledgment : avoidance of baptism, 61–63, 129, 145 Barth, Karl, 7, 58, 67–68 beauty, 23, 37–38, 102, 136, 150n12 Beckett, Samuel, 20–22, 149n10, 150n7 Beckwith, Sarah, 60, 153n24, 159n4, 160n26 Bible, 1, 61, 74, 118, 145; New Testament, 38, 145; Old Testament, 2, 89, 99. See also Adam; Eden; Eve; Genesis birth, 13, 62–63, 97 body, human, 11, 17, 37, 38, 49, 54, 85, 108, 117; mind-body dualism, 116 catharsis, 43, 120 certainty, 9, 48–49, 51, 58, 61, 67, 77–78, 103, 108, 111, 123 change, 12, 24, 44, 46, 58, 62–63, 76, 80, 82, 120, 121, 130, 132, 141, 142; inner, 59, 63; possibility of, 100; promise of, 63, 64; sensibility of, 13 Christianity, 2–3, 16–21, 22–23, 24, 26, 30, 31, 80, 88, 89, 99, 100, 101, 107, 116, 117, 127, 130, 135–136, 138, 139, 140, 143, 144, 147n7, 149n9, 154n12, 161n8; Christian inheritance, 3, 147n3; Christian outlook, 2, 17, 18, 81, 97, 130, 142; Christian theology, 4, 15, 29, 114; Christian tradition, 4, 87, 144, 147n3; criticism of, 17, 20, 134. See also Judeo-Christian tradition 172 Index Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 73, 74, 133 community, 36, 39, 52, 55, 65, 92; sense of, 30, 65 confession, 2, 3, 14, 47, 48, 54–56, 57–60, 62, 64, 80, 100–101, 126, 129, 152n11; consequences of, 58–59 conformity, 44, 138, 144, 154n12 consequences, 4, 56, 91, 92, 93, 100, 118, 119, 121, 136; moral, 4; of the unremarkable , 56. See also under actions ; confession; words conservatism, 8, 12 creation, by God, 51, 68, 78, 124 Critchley, Simon, 20, 103, 149n10, 153n29, 160n7 criteria, 10, 13, 27, 33, 34, 35, 39, 41, 50, 57, 58, 67, 72–73, 76, 78, 85–86, 88, 94, 123–124; limits of, 42, 43; public, 48 criticism, 29, 57; philosophical, 57; of religion , 26, 143. See also Christianity: criticism of Crucifixion, the, 54, 117, 142 culture, 4–5, 18, 61, 116; criteria for, 57; cultural inheritance, 136; modernist, 19 cynicism, 32, 68 death, 11, 37, 61, 62, 73, 75, 76, 125, 126, 133, 137, 140. See also God: death of deflection, 41–42, 44, 110 denial, 9, 13, 41, 50, 72, 76, 80, 91, 96, 105, 110, 111, 116, 118; of the human, 17– 18, 68, 73. See also skepticism: and denial dependence, 51, 77, 78, 79, 124, 126, 135. See also other, the: dependence on depressive position, 110, 122, 158n12 Derrida, Jacques, 7, 14, 30, 45, 82–85, 90, 92, 93–97, 106, 121, 130, 131–133, 150n1, 155n4, 155n6, 156n24, 157n4 Descartes, René, 41, 54, 64, 107, 113–115, 116, 135, 137–138, 158n19 desire, 39, 52, 56, 70, 75–76, 78, 79, 108, 120, 122...

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