Work of Love: A Theological Reconstruction of the Communion of Saints

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WORK OF LOVE
Title
Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 Indefinite Article
	Looking Backward
	The Development of a Doctrine
	The Orthodoxy of the Body of the Faithful
	State of the Communion
	The Diagnosis
	Looking Forward
CHAPTER 2 Solitary Confinement
	Regarding Christian Hope
	Forgetting Death
	Interlude: Transgressing the Forbidden, Seeing the Invisible
	The Rilkean Opening
	The View from Heidegger
	Remembering the Forgotten Death
CHAPTER 3 Word of Life
	Toward a Christian Account of Death and Communication
	Karl Rahner: A Theology of Death within Christian Eschatology
	Joseph Ratzinger: Communication within Salvation History
	Hans Urs von Balthasar: Heeding Absolute Communication
	Given to Nothing: Creation and Resurrection
	The Word of Life
CHAPTER 4 Dispossessing Desire
	Becoming Fully Human
	Encountering the Risen Christ: The Beginning of a New End
	At the End of All Exploring: What Augustine Found
	Ontology by Desire
	Desiring God
CHAPTER 5 Bodily Memory
	A Fool’s Errand?
	Ordering the Commedia
	The Communicative Nature
	The Space of Freedom
	The Church’s Oblation
	Ascension, Assumption, and the Resurrection of the Body
CHAPTER 6 Work of Love
	Hastening to Wholeness
	The Coming of the Lord
	A Beautiful Pattern: The Aesthetic Pedagogy of the Book of Exodus
	Interlude: Glory as Dwelling, Dwelling as Communion
	Thérèse of Lisieux and the Beauty of the Earth
	Teresa of Avila and the Beauty of Carmel
	Mother Teresa and the Beauty of Calcutta
	Dorothy Day and the Beauty of New York
	The Intermediate State and the Beauty of Wholeness
	Liturgical Training and the Beauty of Prayer
	God’s People and the Beauty of Particularity
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index