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Index 227 Acting Person, The, 47–49, 106–7, 120–21, 183–85 adultery, 63–65 affirmation, 39, 65–66, 98, 100, 119, 144, 182, 189, 193, 204 anthropology: adequate, 5–17; dualistic, 110, 214; relational, 79, 122, 133, 135, 145, 166–67. See also man; reductionism appropriation, 61 Aquinas, Thomas, St., 56, 75, 90, 95–96, 99, 101, 115–16, 122, 134, 139, 154, 166, 168, 185 Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition, 98–101, 183, 185 Aristotle, 17, 21, 47–48, 99 Augustine, St., 32–33, 59, 61, 68, 90, 96, 101, 115–16, 139, 154, 165–66, 168 baptism, 59, 87 Barth, Karl, 135, 209–10 beginning, the, 25–33, 42–53, 78, 80, 109, 121–22, 146, 152–53. See also creation being, contingent, 12 Bierach, Alfred J., 177 bioethics, 13 body, 3–9; as the image of God, 164–66; as subject, 42–54; as object, 54–65; as sign of the person, 13, 57, 60; glorified, 82; in the Cartesian thought, 4–5; in biological knowledge 13. See also nakedness; language of the body; sex; sacramentality of the body; meaning of the body Book of Tobit, The, 195–98 Bultmann, Rudolf, 35, 209–10 celibacy. See continence child, 111–12, 124, 128–29. See also family; fatherhood; maternity Christ, 165–69; Head of the Church, 84–86; the image of God, 138–40. See also Church; redemption Church, 47, 83, 91; as communio, 97, 102– 5, 134–35; as Christ’s Bride, 84–88. See also ecclesiology; communion Clarke, Norris, 133 communication, nonverbal, 170–78. See also language of the body communio personarum. See communion of persons communio. See communion communion of persons, 80, 83, 93–98, 104, 110; as the image of God, 146, 149–59. See also imago Dei; love; Communion of Saints Communion of Saints (communio sanctorum ), 79, 82, 130, 165 communion, history of the term, 96–97; in the theology of Vatican II, 101–5. See also communion of persons; Church; Holy Trinity concupiscence, 59–73, 80, 125–28, 151–52, 158, 209 conscience, 56–58, 201 consciousness, 6–8, 19–20, 107, 109, 117, 121–22, 125, 145, 152, 183–85. See also self-consciousness 228 Index continence, 74, 81–83, 163 contraception, 127, 204 conversion, 113 Copleston, Frederick, SJ, 43 covenant, 197–98 creation, 186–96; of Adam, 7–9; of Eve, 117–120; as gift, 109–16; in the Yahwist account, 44–50, 142–47; in the Elohist account, 142–47. See also beginning, the death, 45–46, 193–95. See also immortality demythologization, 209–10 Descartes, René, 1, 3–4, 43, 67 determinism, 15, 17, 51, 57, 159 DeVito, Joseph, 174–76 dignity, 13 Dilthey, Wilhelm, 24 divinization, 78, 129, 164 domination, of husband over wife, 85, 126; over nature, 45. See also governance dualism. See anthropology Eco, Umberto, 171–72 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 94 emotions, 177–82 Erasmus of Rotterdam, 173 ethos, of the Sermon on the Mount, 62–71; of the redemption of the body, 69–70 ecclesiology: Eucharistic, 97, 134 experience, 4–9, 19, 24–33, 78–81; boundary , 53, 58; essentially human, 9, 17, 20; unity of human experience, 9; original, 25, 60 faith, 32–40, 207–8 family, 105 fatherhood, 52, 111, 123. See also child; motherhood; family fear: of God, 55, 84 feminism, 212. See also woman Fides et ratio, 11, 34, 37–39 Fitzmyer, Joseph A., SJ, 69–70, 196 Fox, Patricia A., 135 freedom, 15, 17, 37, 44–46, 69, 106, 119– 20, 141. See self-determination friendship, 99, 106, 190. See love Gadamer, Hans-Georg 21, 24 Galileo, 2–3 gift, 85–86, 93–131; disinterested, sincere, 106–10, 120, 132; identification of its meaning, 167; trinitarian, 96, 101; in the philosophy of Karol Wojtyła, 100, 131–36. See also hermeneutics of the gift; the law of the gift God, 43–46. See also Christ; Holy Spirit; Holy Trinity governance: over nature, 2. See also domination ; self-governance Grabowski, Marian, 10, 40, 143, 210 grace, as gift, 91, 113–14; lost, 56; of the resurrection, 59, 69, 129, 157, 162–67 Grenz, Stanley J., 135, 165–66, 169 Guillet, Jacques, 95 Hall, Edward T., 174–77 Hauck, Friedrich, 72, 96 head, 23; the husband as the head of his wife, 84–86; Christological meaning, 84–86 heart, 42, 64–66, 69–71, 82–83 Heidegger, Martin, 21, 24 hermeneutics, 18–40; of the gift, 18–19; as existential interpretation of symbols and myths, 29–40; as a method of...

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