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Index abstraction, 60 actualism, 14, 18 agency, 51, 55–58, 83, 148 angels, 126, 157 atheism, 21, 133–34 Badiou, Alain, 24 belief, 121–22, 123–27, 133 black box, 82–84 cliché, 153–54 computer programming, 4, 152 concatenation, 16, 25, 27, 60, 73 consciousness, 57 conspiracy theory, 9, 32, 96, 103 constructivism, 72–76 Darwin, Charles 1–2 democracy, 19–22, 103–7 Derrida, Jacques, 116 disenchantment, 46 165 Eliade, Mircea, 6 epistemology, 68–71 essence, 88–90 evolution, 1–2, 136–39 ex nihilo, 32 facts, 72–76, 83–84 faith, 127, 133 fermentation, 42–43, 77, 78 flat ontology, 17–18, 27, 37, 42 flesh, 148 form, 91–94 God, 19, 21–22, 45–47, 50, 80–81, 132–35, 157, 158 Gould, Stephen Jay, 1–2, 46 grace, 6–8, 45–48, 77–81, 143–46 habits, 89–90 Heidegger, Martin, 43–44, 116 hermeneutics, 108–12 Husserl, Edmund, 116 hyperopia, 118–22 iconoclasm, 128–29 iconophilia, 128–31 ideas, 104–5 idolatry, 128–29 immanence, 118–22 intermediary, 60–61 intimate detour, 59, 73, 148 knowledge, 121–22 laboratory, 113–17 Levinas, Emmanuel, 116 machines, 57–58 Marion, Jean-Luc, 116 matter, 92–94 mediator, 60–61, 74 mereology, 27–28 Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 116 metaphysics, 12–14, 16, 30–31 methodology, 23–26 morals, 140–42 myopia, 118–22 Nature, 63–64, 124–25 negotiation, 47 network, 29, 128 nonhuman, 57, 69–70, 76, 140–42 ontology, 68–71 organism, 86–87 passibility, 80–81 Paul, 7, 34, 133 phenomenology, 115–16 Plato, 29 166 Index politics, 20, 53–54, 62–63, 68–69 plurality, 15–18 prayer, 151–54 presence, 155–57 principle of irreduction, 34–36, 37–40, 62, 95–96, 143–44 purity, 43–44, 96 realism, 48, 50, 62–65, 75, 80 reductionism, 9–11, 35, 124 reference, 99–102 religion, 14, 22, 48, 118–22, 123–27, 136–39, 144–45 representation, 56–57, 62–67 resistant availability, 39, 49–54, 77–81, 143–46 Sartre, Jean-Paul, 32 science, 73–74, 83–84, 92–94, 114–15, 118–22, 136–39 semiotics, 99–102, 109–10 sin, 144–46, 156 soul, 97–98 Spirit, 147–50, 151–52 structure, 91–94 subjectivity, 95–98, 148–49 substance, 31, 82–83, 85–87 suffering, 5, 77–81, 144 transcendence, 41–44, 50, 64–65, 77, 118–22 translation, 59–61 trials of strength, 51 truth, 70–71, 74, 103–7 unconditional, 8, 40, 79 weakness, 52–54 wholly other, 41 work, 80, 144 ...

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