466 thematic index
Salvation religions: belief- disbelief halfway
house, 224– 226; core theology, 222; defects
in the human condition, approach to, 359,
394; fossilized forms of, 186– 187; promises
of, 4, 10– 12, 216; redemption/salvation
narrative, 267– 270; reformation, possibility
of, 231; revolutionary infl uence of, 231– 236;
shared elements, 122– 123; transcendence-
immanence dialectic, 206; the transcen-
dent divine in, 391; veneration for the law,
163, 235– 236. See also specifi c religions
Salvation religions scandals of reason:
particularity, 226– 227, 264, 266– 268;
response to, 271– 272; supernaturalism,
225– 226, 264– 266; unintelligibility of the
idea of God, 227– 230, 264, 268– 272
Sartrean heresy, 162– 163, 281, 409, 433.
See also Sartre, Jean- Paul
Scandals of reason: particularity, 226– 227,
264, 266– 268; response to, 271– 272;
supernaturalism, 225– 226, 264– 266;
unintelligibility of the idea of God,
227– 230, 264, 268– 272
Secular humanism: defects in the human
condition and, 217; existential groundless-
ness and, 14; obstacle of, 125, 136; religion
of the future and, 202, 236, 258, 261, 287,
- See also Struggle with the world
Secularization, meaning of, 52– 53
Self, the: defi nition of, 3; as individuated
consciousness, 148; struggle with the world
vision of, 132– 135, 201, 209; theomorphic
conception of, 222, 227– 229. See also
Humans, ordinary
Self- assertion, 85, 434, 436; ethic of,
32, 454
Self- construction, 214, 356– 366, 434– 436
Self- grounding, 158– 159, 179– 180
Self- help, 69, 94, 96, 252– 253
Selfh ood, 3– 4, 62– 71, 172– 173
Selfl ess benevolence ethic, 63
Self- others relationships: ac cep tance in,
longing for, 368, 370– 372, 390– 391;
altruism in, 155– 156, 170– 172, 371, 392;
ambivalence in, 19– 20, 32, 85, 155– 156,
343– 344, 371– 373, 390– 392, 436– 437;
benevolence standard in, 171; boundary
experience in, 388– 390; in Christianity,
174– 175; conduct of, in the religion of the
future, 343– 344, 370– 378; experience of the
divine in, 343– 344; free society concept,
implications for, 294– 298, 312– 313;
humanization of the world approach,
98– 106, 108– 109, 115– 116, 145; imagination
of otherness in, 14– 15, 46, 87, 92– 93, 98– 99,
108, 110, 173, 372– 376, 393; love, role of, 156,
172– 174, 181– 182; in present- day society,
185; reward of, 439; self- construction and,
32, 434– 436; struggle with the world
approach, 144– 145, 155– 157, 170– 180, 209;
virtues of connection, 370– 378, 387;
vulnerability in, 60
Self- possession, ideal of, 75
Self- structure relationship, 176– 178, 294– 295
Self- transformation: assumptions for,
347– 350; defects in the human condition
and, 356– 365; engagement for, 354– 355;
is- ought/description- prescription
distinction, 344– 347; obstacles to, 352– 353;
orientation to the future for, 354– 355;
purpose of, 341– 344; remaking society
and culture through, 353– 354; self- others
relationships in, 343– 344, 352– 353; from
self- subversion to, 355– 366; virtue as,
366– 369; as vision for the conduct of life,
350– 352
Semitic mono the isms: commitment without
grounds, 124; core theology, 222; God in,
10– 12, 222; promises of, 10– 12, 216; shared
elements, 122– 123; veneration for the law,
235– 236. See also Salvation religions
Serenity, 68– 69, 74– 77, 82– 84, 173– 174
Shallow equality, 294, 314, 316– 320
Shallow freedom, 314, 316– 320
Simplicity virtue of purifi cation, 379, 387
Sleepwalking, breaking the spell of, 5, 13, 25,
219– 221, 359– 361, 364– 368
Social demo crats, 183, 309
Social framework: alterability, possibility
of, 25– 26; overcoming the insatiability
of desire, 21– 23; partial and defective
character, 291– 292; po liti cal content, forces
working toward, 292– 293; present- day,
failure of, 185– 187; sacred law in shaping,
163; self- grounding humanity, 15; state
imposed limits on the, 292
Social framework, revising the: empower-
ment and, 29– 34, 440– 442; humanization
of the world approach, 90– 96, 98– 103,
110– 113; the law in, 97– 98; mummifi cation,
defeating through, 405– 407, 408, 413– 415,
422– 425, 428– 430, 434– 435; mutilation,