Table of Contents
Introduction
Changing Terrain
From Augustine to Postmodernity
From Virtues to Values
Our Moment
I. A Tale of Two Spiritualities
Can the Church Be Reformed?
Modern Differences
Older Similarities
Spirituality
Classical
Postmodern
Embarrassed by Modernity
II. The Playground of Desire
Rebels and Restrainers
Obeying the Unenforceable
Bowling Alone
Control
III. On Saving Ourselves
Surviving and Assembling Ourselves
Social Ghosts
Pro-choice
Empty Selves
Malls
Hard Bodies
From Character to Personality
From Nature to Self-consciousness
The New Healers
IV. The Bonfire of the Self
From Guilt to Shame
Talking about the Self
Home Alone
Come, Join the Revolution
Guilt in Remission
On Feeling Ashamed
Exposed
How Many Ways Can I Feel Ashamed?
Lost in Moral Space
Disoriented
Identity and Style
Identity and Character
V. Contradictions
From Amnesia to Memory
The Moral Sense
The Biblical Perspective
Honor and Shame
Then and Now
Faith as Subversive
VI. Faith of the Ages
Whatever Happened to Sin?
The Cultural Transformation of Sin
The Spiritual Transformation of Sin
Disaffection with Postmodernity
Whatever Happened to the Church?
The Courage to Believe