Translation of Erlöstes Dasein: theologische Betrachtungen. "A Crossroad book."
Includes bibliographical references.
Creation -- Paradise -- HEaven -- Corporality -- Man as Body-Soul Unity -- Man as Unity of Body, SOul and Grace -- The Inappropriateness of our Corporality -- The Consummation of the Body in the Risen Christ -- Man's Risen Body -- Sickness -- Christian Compassion -- Christian Devotion -- Suffering -- Out of Closeness to Selflessness -- From Stubborness to Gratitude -- From Abandonment into Joy -- The Basic Law of Human Happiness -- Death Death as Final Decision -- Death as the 'Particular Judgment' -- Death as Purgatory -- Death as a Possibility of Self-Damnation -- Death as a Source of Life -- Eternal Life -- Experience of Heaven -- 'Place' of Heaven -- 'Knowing Christ' -- Being Together in Love -- The Second Coming of Christ
This is a book for those who want to be the authors of their own lives, to put some sense into them and see some pattern in their existence. This is most difficult at the point when pain and suffering, frustration, injustice, cruelty and all other forms of evil not only plague them but seem to dominate the world at large. How to reconcile pain with providence, how, indeed, to see providence working through pain, is the lesson of a lifetime, the secret of Christian wisdom, and the gift of this book.