St. John of the Cross Moral Life of the Children of God: An Outlook on Moral Implications of Christian Sonship

includes index and biblioraphy

1. The Writings of St. John of the Cross on the Transformation of the Children of God .........1 Romances and Other Poems ...........9 The Spiritual Canticle ..........29 The Ascent of Mount Carmel ........36 The Dark Night .........49 The Living Flame of Love ...........56 The Precautions and Other monor works ..........60 2. The Theological Frame of Christian Sonship in the Teachings of St. John of the Cross Harmony in the Trinitarian Project of Creation ............67 Natural Harmony proper to Human Nature ..............74 Breakage of the Natural Harmony and the moral Order ........79 Sensual life of the Children of this world ............81 Restoration of the Perfect moral Uprightness .........84 Divine life of the Children of God .......94 Growth in the Divine life under the Divine pedagogy ...............99 3. The Feeble Nature of Christian Sonship in the Stage of Beginners The beginners as feeble children of this world .......121 The Appetites as the Basic Trait of Feeble beginners .........123 The Son as the Moral Imperative for Feeble Beginners .........178 4. The Proficients as Grace- Filled and Virtous sons in the Process of Growth Primary of God in the State of Proficients .............203 Process of Weaning in the Practice of Christian Virtues .............228 5. The Perfect as the Children of God in the Plentitude of Christian Life The Perfect in the Highest state of Christian Sonship .........281 Trinitarian Dimensions of Christian Sonship .............304 Moral Implications of Christian Sonship .....................324