Introduction: Partial and universal truth
Truth, Scripture and Christian culture
The nature of the present study
1. The human race, or how could women be created in the image and likeness of God?
1.1. The importance of the problem
1.2. From mythology to philosophy
1.3. Plato and the perfect (male) soul
1.4. Interpreting Genesis
1.5. Philo Judaeus and Paul of Tarsus
1.6. Carnal and spiritual, corporeal and non-corporeal
1.7. Becoming male: Platonizing and non-platonizing versions
1.8. Clement of Alexandria and the female: Platonic eros and Stoic apatheia
1.9. "Platonizing" after Clement
1.9.1. Origen: Apatheia and Eros
1.9.2. Didymus, Basil and Gregory of Nyssa
1.10. The non-platonizing tradition: Irenaeus and Tertullian
1.11. The Antiochene tradition
1.12. Augustine's dilemma
1.13. Can Aristotelianism help? The case of Thomas Aquinas
1.14.1. The present situation
1.14.2. Some underdetermined "Pauline" texts and explanations
1.14.3. Some proposals of Karol Wojtyla and others
1.14.4. Why does it matter now?
2. Divine Justice and man's "genetic" flaw
2.1. Augustine vs Julian with hindsight
2.2. The opening salvos in the Pelagian War
2.3. Pelagianism, predestination and the origin of the soul
2.4. Julian: Marriage, Mani and Aristotle
2.5. Julian's options after 419
2.5.4. Scriptural interpretation
2.6. Augustine vs Julian: Cultural effects and unfinished business
3. Divine beauty: Nature, art and humanity
3.1. Ethics and aesthetics
3.3. The origin of aesthetic problems in ancient Christianity
3.4. Plato's original proposals
3.5. Epicurus and the Stoics
3.6. Plotinus: Advances and ambiguities in "Platonic" theory
3.7. Christianity before Origen
3.8. The truth about Irenaeus
3.9. Origen on God's beauty
3.10. Methodius and the fourth-century revolution
3.11. Gregory of Nyssa: Development in the East
3.12. Augustine: Development in the West
3.13. What use "pagan" beauty?
3.14. Aesthetics and ethics
4. The origin and early development of episcopacy at Rome
4.1. The relevance of the present theme
4.2. Rome before the Neronian persecution
4.3. Rome after Peter: 65-165
4.4. Lists of Roman Bishops
4.5. Bishops and doctrine
4.6. Deviant Bishops, deviant Churches
4.7. Wilful blindness as failure of discernment
5. Caesaropapism, theocracy or neo-Augustinian politics?
5.1. Christian totalitarianism: A possible programme
5.2. John Chrysostom, or how not to be a Catholic opinion-former
5.3. Ancient (and more modern) Caesaropapism
5.4. Papal (and other) theocracy
5.5. Augustine and political Augustinianism
5.6. Political theory: Augustine and Aristotle
5.7. Humility plus human rights
5.9. Political structures
6. The Catholic Church in "modern" and "post-modern" culture
6.1. Where the hell are we now?
6.2. From the Renaissance and Reformation to science and scientism
6.4. Humanism or nihilism
6.5. Church and society: Corrupt survival in a secular world
7. Looking at hopes and fears in the rear mirror
7.1. Current threats and fundamentalist responses
7.2. The next necessary phase of cultural development
7.3. Boldness and caution in Catholic culture
7.4. Then is it merely nostalgic to preach about the common good?
7.5. Truth and saving truth revisited
