Secular grace /
edited by Dana Freibach-Heifetz ; translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Harshav.
- xi, 196 páginas : 25 centímetros.
- Value inquiry book series ; 299 Value inquiry book series ; .
Introduction -- The death of God -- Freedom devoid of alternatives to Religion -- Quasi-religious alternatives to religion -- Secular humanism -- Secular grace -- The structure and methodology of the book -- Grace and salvation in christianity -- Relation -- Gift -- Free will to give and to receive -- The subjective aspect of grace -- The objective aspect of grace -- Outcomes of graces: Salvation -- Liberation -- Love -- Granting meaning to life -- Selfhood -- Secular grace: First thoughts -- A general concept of grace -- The background of secular grace -- Relationship -- The sides of the relationship of grace -- Equality and reciprocity -- Personal and dialogic relationship -- Free will -- The subjective aspect: Mutual love -- Disinterest -- Acceptance, identification and respect -- Difficulties and dangers -- Secular love and christian love -- The objetive aspect: Acts of grace -- Practical measure of Grace -- Outcomes of grace -- Liberation -- Love -- Meaning -- Selfhood -- Other possible outcomes -- Dialogue, encounter, friendship, gift -- I-Thou relationship according to Buber -- Self-identify between relation and relationship -- Characteristics of I-Tou relationship -- The conditions for the existence of I-Thou relationship -- Outcomes of I-Thou relationship -- I-Thou as grace, grace as I-Thou -- The encounter with the face of the other in the thinking of Levinas -- The world of totality and te world of infinity -- Self-identity in the presence of the other -- Fruits of the ethical relation to the other -- The levinasian encounter with the other´s face and secular grace -- Gift and generosity -- What is a gift -- The giver and the receiver -- The measure of giving -- Dangers of giving and its difficulties -- Secular grace as a gift -- Friendship -- What is friendship -- Between emotion and choice -- Scope of friendship -- Conditions for establishing friendship -- Friendship and Selfhood -- Fruits of friendship -- Difficulties and dangers of friendship -- Friendship as secular grace -- Secular grace: Further Glance -- Secular grace in Prose -- The grace-path of prince Myshkin -- An Idiot, or: Prince Myshikin´s mistake -- Reevaluating prince myshkin´s path -- Grace-relation with the dead -- Relation with the dead -- Secular grace with the dead -- Secular salvation? -- Secular grace and salvation -- Ways of individual secular salvation -- The secular Pilgrim and his salvation -- Secular grace as a Path to salvation -- Humanist, existentialist, secular grace -- Humanism -- Existentialism -- Secularism -- Bibliography -- Index of names -- Index of subjects.