The Self-Awareness of God in Christ: Jacques Maritain's Christology in the Epistemology of Michael Polanyi /
Stephen Patrick Doering, Ph.D.
- Pennsylvania: St. Vincent Spirituality Publications, 2008.
- xxii, 181 pages; 23 cm
Preliminary Questions -- The Question before Maritain -- The Council of Chalcedon -- A Modern History of the Question -- Karl Rahner -- The Biblical Question, Luke 2.52 -- General Inquiry -- Raymond Brown -- Jacques Maritain: Intellectual and Personal Profile -- Michael Polanyi: Intellectual and Personal Profile -- Maritain's Christology -- On the Grace and Humanity of Jesus -- Methodology... Distinguish -- Comprehensor and Viator -- The Threefold Knowledge of Christ -- Conciousness and Supraconsciouness -- Excursus: Jesus' Self-Knowledge... to Unite -- Futher Works -- The Degrees of Knowledge -- Background -- Finite Human Nature -- The Word Subsisting -- Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry -- The Degress of Consciousness -- Poetic Intuition -- Synthesis -- Polanyi's Epistemology -- Polayian Epistemology and Theology -- Origins of Polanyi's Epistemology -- "Tacit Knowledge" -- Personal Knowledge -- The Tacit Dimension -- Four Aspects of Tacit Dimension -- Four Aspects of Tacit Knowledge -- Discovery and Tacit Knowledge -- Synthesis -- A Confluence of Thought -- Clarification -- Divergence -- The Knowledge of Jesus-Viator -- Maritain on the Knowledge of Jesus-Viator
"Jaques Maritain was only a brilliant philosopher, but an acute theological thinker. Doering has done us an immense and timely favor in providing us with a welcome and competent study of Maritain's view of the Savior, focusing upon his self-consciousness".