Contents -- Editors' Preface -- 1 The Redemption -- 1 Bibliography -- 2 Redemption as Communication -- 3 Intelligibility of the Redemption -- 3.1 Not a Necessity -- 3.2 A Dynamic Intelligibility -- 3.3 An Incarnate Intelligibility -- 3.4 A Complex Intelligibility -- 3.5 A Multiple Intelligibility -- 4 Aspects of the Redemption -- 4.1 Sacrifice -- 4.2 Redemption -- 4.3 Vicarious Satisfaction -- 4.4 Merit -- 4.5 Efficiency -- 5 Redemption as Mystery -- 2 Method in Catholic Theology -- 1 Five Precepts -- 1.1 Understand 1.2 Understand Systematically1.3 Reverse Counterpositions and Develop Positions -- 1.4 Accept the Responsibility of Judgment -- 2 Applications to Catholic Theology -- 2.1 Understand -- 2.2 Understand Systematically -- 2.3 Reverse Counterpositions -- 2.4 Develop Positions -- 2.5 Accept the Responsibility of Judgment -- 3 The Philosophy of History -- 1 History as a Subject -- 1.1 Occasional History -- 1.2 Technical History -- 1.3 Explanatory History -- 2 Philosophy of ... -- 3 Philosophy of History -- 3.1 Philosophy and History That Is Written 3.2 Philosophy and History That Is Written About4 Theology of History -- 5 Conclusion -- 4 The Origins of Christian Realism (1961) -- 1 Four Approaches to the Question -- 1.1 Christian Realism and Christian Philosophy -- 1.2 The Meaning of Realism -- 1.3 The Historical Issue -- 1.4 The Popular Approach -- 2 The God of the Theologians -- 2.1 Jewish-Christian Thinking -- 2.2 Christian Gnosticism -- 2.3 Rationalistic Types -- 2.4 Mainstream Problems -- 3 Christian Realism and the Word of God -- 5 Time and Meaning -- 1 Meaning -- 1.1 Varieties of Meaning 1.2 What Meaning Constitutes2 Time -- 3 The Development of Meaning -- 3.1 Piaget's Analysis of Development -- 3.2 Distinct Types of Development -- 6 Consciousness and the Trinity -- 1 A Contemporary Context -- 2 Consciousness in the Divine Persons -- 3 Consciousness and the Psychological Analogy: Integration -- 4 Block to Integration: Notion of Reality -- 5 Block to Integration: Notion of Knowledge -- Questions -- 7 Exegesis and Dogma -- 1 Three Exegetical Ideals -- 2 Dogmas and Classical Exegesis -- 3 Limitations and Value of Classical Exegesis 4 Romantic Exegesis5 Value and Limitations of Romantic Exegesis -- 6 Points Regarding Exegesis -- 8 The Mediation of Christ in Prayer -- 1 Mediation in General -- 1.1 A Mechanical Example -- 1.2 Organic Examples -- 1.3 A Psychic Example -- 1.4 A Logical Example -- 2 Mutual Mediation: The Functional Whole -- 2.1 A Mechanical Example -- 2.2 Organic Examples -- 2.3 A Psychic Example -- 2.4 A Scientific Example -- 3 Self-mediation -- 3.1 The Living Organism -- 3.2 Consciousness -- 3.3 Self-consciousness -- 4 Mutual Self-mediation