Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Translator's Preface -- 1 The Christian Sense -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Historical Aspect: What Is Specific about It in Christian Religion -- Chapter 2. The Intellectual Aspect and the Permanent Unity of the Christian Spirit -- Chapter 3. The Internal Proofs and the Spiritually Vivifying Aspect of Catholicism -- Chapter 4. Is It Possible to Define the Christian Spirit by Reducing It to a Principle of Essential Unity?

Chapter 5. On the Enabling Method for Acceding to the Domain Where Lives the Indissoluble Unity of the Christian Spirit -- Chapter 6. The Catholic Unity -- Chapter 7. The Inventions of Charity and the Supernatural -- Chapter 8. The Destiny Offered and Imposed on Man -- Chapter 9. Synthetic Exploration and Progressive Elaboration Starting from the Generative Idea of Christian Religion -- Chapter 10. Unity of the Work of Creation for the External Glory of God through Supernatural Elevation

Chapter 11. The Conditions for Realizing the Divine Plan for Surmounting the Difficulty of Uniting Two Incommensurables, the Creator and the Creature: On the One Hand, the Invention of Divine Charity to Cross the Abyss through the "Verbum Caro Factum" [the Word Made Flesh] and the Hypostatic Union, on the Other Hand, the Testing Imposed on Man by the Transformative Union -- Chapter 12. The Doctrine of the Supernatural Considered under Its Triple Metaphysical, Ascetic, and Mystical Aspect

Chapter 13. How the Order of Grace Completes the Natural Orderand Forms with It in Us a Life and a Personality That Is Truly One -- Chapter 14. The Union of Nature and Supernature in the Practical Order Itself -- Chapter 15. The Philosophical Problem of Sanctity -- Chapter 16. The Proof of Christian Religion through the Idea and the Very Word-Catholicism -- Chapter 17. The Character of Apostolicity in Catholicism -- Conclusion -- 2 On Assimilation as Fulfillment and Transposition of The Theory of Analogy -- Foreword -- Chapter 1. Twofold Traditional Sense of the Word "Assimilation."

Chapter 2. Getting beyond the Metaphors That Risk Masking the True Problem -- Chapter 3. Is the Issue One of a Simple Ideal Participation or Do We Have to Conceive of a Truly Vital Participation? -- Chapter 4. Irreplaceable Role of a Laborious Trial of Parturition for the "New Birth" -- Chapter 5. Paradox of the Tribulations of the Just and Scandal of the Sufferings Judged According to Our Human Views -- Chapter 6. Supreme Objection: The Problem of Evil in Its Most Universal Form -- Chapter 7. The Only Appeasing Solution of an Assimilative Theogony by Way of Renunciation and Even Death

"This is a translation of the last book Blondel published at the end of his life. Knowing he was close to death, Blondel wrote it as a culmination and synthesis of his approach to theological philosophy. It consists of two main essays on how Christian religion relates to philosophy: one on how Christian religion, even as supernatural, can come under the purview of critical philosophy, and one on how the human and the divine can be assimilated in religious experience, and also of a few appendices on his method of implication for bringing philosophy and Christian religion together"-- Provided by publisher.