Human Life: The Locus and Focus of Salvation

Biblical View of Salvation..24,Salvation is not only an Eschatological event..25, The Biblical Story: Looking backwards to move forward..26, In the beginning-solidarity and Intimacy..28, Common Good..30, Commitment, Covenant, Solidarity..31, Signs, Wonders, and Sacrament..32, The Church Community..34, The Servant of each and all persons..39, Suffering Leads to Happiness and Solodarity in God..45, A New Vision of Solidarity..47, Solidarity is Self- donation..49
Chapter 2: Socio-Political approach to Salvation..54, People obain the Government they deserve..55, Relativity, Temporality and impermanence of human life..59, Suffering is part of Life..61, The Sociological Model, Dynamic of Sociological impel Persons toward Salvation..70, salvation of human Persons..73, Materialist Sociology..78, Reasons for Optimism: Forces for good..80, Understanding faith in Contemporary materialist Society..90, Living Responsibly: according to Vaclav havel..91, Political, Sociological, and Theological ideas of salvation..95, salvation as historical Deliverance..96, Liberation theology: Political and Sociological Deliverance..97
Chapter 3: Psychological approach to Salvation..99, Salvation within the framework of Modern Psychology..100, Salvation within the framework of Personal Universalism..105, Consciousness, Freedom, individuality and Personality..124
Chapter 4: What are the Philosophical approach to salvation?...127, Greek ideas of salvation as Satisfaction, expiation, and Meditation..127, Christian articulation of platonic ideas of Salvation..132, Indian idea of Salvation..132, Christian Consciousness..135, Church as a fellowship of Experiencers..139, Contemporary ideas of salvation..141, Use of Myth..141, Dialectics of postmodern Consciousness..143
Chapter 5: How is the human Person the Focus of Salvation?..156, Anthropology of John Paul II enable Understanding of Salvation..157, The Certainity of the human Person..176,
Chapter 6: Can Appreciation or life Counter life- threatening trends?..187, Parameters of ecology of human life..188, Appreciation of human life Counters life-threatening trends..202, People are the essential earthly resource..210
Chapter 7: How do Christian theologies consider salvation?..216, There are various Christian theologies of Salvation..217, Ecclesiastical Doctrine and theology not always the same..220, Liberation in Christ..223, Salvation as meaning..232, Liberation theology, the choice of poor People?..235, Salvation in Christ..236, Principles for a theology of meaning as Salvation..237
Chapter 8: A Unifying Christian vision?..241, Ultimate happiness is found in Contemplation..243, Craving happiness is not a free choice..244, human persons seek happiness by nature..246, Happiness requires action..254, Happiness is cognition..256, Contemplation is seeing..259, Earthly Contemplation for human persons..261, Contemplation: Loving knowingly directed to happiness..263, Contemplation gazes at the Heart of things..264, Balance between via Contemplativa and Via Activa..265, Happiness is seeing in Contemplation..268, Features common to happy Contemplatives..269