Empowering the Lonely Crowd Pope John Paul II, Lonergan and Japanese Buddhism

by Raymaker, John

• ISBN13: 9780761826941
• ISBN10: 0761826947
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-17
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

In Empowering the Lonely Crowd, John Raymaker simplifies and extends arguments made in his previous book, A Buddhist-Christian Logic of the Heart, in particular the notion of a spiritual genome. Raymaker explores and compares John Paul II and Lonergan's thought in relation to (Japanese) Buddhism, concluding that while all life has a coded genome, all humans have a free, uncoded spiritual genome that is a viable alternative to postmodern scepticism.

Table of Contents

Table of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Diphase Generalized Empirical Method Beyond Diploid Cells
The Modern Church and its Challenges	p. 5
Rethinking Riesman	p. 6
A Spiritual Genome as "Allelic" with Reason	p. 11
Toward Vector Loci	p. 12
TNA as Heuristic Feedback	p. 14
Locating Vector Loci	p. 15
The Importance of Implicit Definitions	p. 19
How GEM's Episteme Differs from Foucault's (I)	p. 21
Broadening TNA Ethical Horizons	p. 23
Mediating Buddhist	p. 26
Pure Land Buddhism	p. 27
GEM and Pope John Paul II	p. 31
A Buddhist-Christian "Poetry of Service"	p. 33
Nanorobots, Sartre or the Kingdom	p. 34
Bridging Secular-Spiritual Foundations	p. 35
Integrated Perspective Applied to Politics or Laws	p. 37
A TNA Feedback Key to Church Teachings and to Empowering the Lonely	p. 39
Reinstating abcd Ideals of Love despite Kant	p. 39
TNA-Mediating Kingdom Ideals	p. 41
Our Self-interest in Action	p. 42
How the Church Reconciles Grace and Faith	p. 43
How GEM's Episteme Differs from Foucault's (II)	p. 44
TNA Action That Implements Diphase Gem
Synergizing our TNA Spiritual Genome	p. 49
Synergizing our TNA Spiritual Genome	p. 52
Synergizing Polymorphic, Allemorphic GEM	p. 55
Allowing "Ideal TNA Spindles" to Form our Lives	p. 57
A TNA Theology of the Body as Empowering Model	p. 58
TNA Spindles' Allelic Loci Remove Maya Veils	p. 59
GEM Conjugates and Yoga-Zen Conjugate-Loci	p. 62
Toward TNA Allelic Judgments	p. 65
TNA Conjugates Link Virtues	p. 67
Testing the Limits and Possibilities of TNA Ideals	p. 73
Integrating Form and "Formalizable Formlessness"	p. 75
TNA Conjugates & Christian-Buddhist Communities
Linking Zen's Prajna Wisdom and Mysticism	p. 78
A Ba-Loci Topology and TNA Feeback Conjugates	p. 81
Reinstating Faith-Reason Alleles to the Lonely Crowd	p. 84
Situating the Lonely Crowd within Meaning	p. 85
GEM's Ethical Economics	p. 89
How GEM Responds to MNC Hegemony	p. 90
Conclusion	p. 93
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