| Preface | | V | |
| Table of Contents | | VII | |
| I FROM THE SENSE OF THE WHOLE TO THE SENSE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD | | 1 | (32) |
| 1. The Paradigm of Rational Religion |
| | 1 | (1) |
| 2. The Historical Setting of Rational Religion |
| | 2 | (4) |
| 3. The Dynamics of Religious Liberty |
| | 6 | (4) |
| 4. Rationality and Religious Belief |
| | 10 | (9) |
| 5. The Myth of the Sense of the Whole |
| | 19 | (6) |
| | 25 | (3) |
| 7. The Sense of the Presence of God |
| | 28 | (5) |
| II REAL PRESENCE | | 33 | (62) |
| | 33 | (3) |
| | 36 | (7) |
| 3. Steiner's Wager on God |
| | 43 | (5) |
| 4. Real Presence as Hidden Presence |
| | 48 | (4) |
| 5. Presence in Analytical Theories of Time |
| | 52 | (3) |
| | 55 | (3) |
| 7. Presence as Self-Presence |
| | 58 | (6) |
| | 64 | (11) |
| | 75 | (10) |
| 10. Real Presence as Salvific Presence |
| | 85 | (10) |
| III DISCERNING GOD'S PRESENCE | | 95 | (42) |
| 1. Can God's Non-Existence be (Dis)proved? |
| | 96 | (6) |
| | 102 | (3) |
| | 105 | (3) |
| | 108 | (3) |
| 5. Limits of What We Can Discern |
| | 111 | (5) |
| 6. Experiential and Intellectual Modes of Apprehension |
| | 116 | (4) |
| | 120 | (6) |
| 8. Can We Discern God's Presence? |
| | 126 | (3) |
| | 129 | (3) |
| 10. Discerning the Difference |
| | 132 | (5) |
| IV MODES OF DIVINE PRESENCE | | 137 | (32) |
| | 137 | (3) |
| 2. God's Twofold Presence and Activity |
| | 140 | (5) |
| 3. Modes of Divine Activity |
| | 145 | (7) |
| 4. Modes of Divine Presence |
| | 152 | (5) |
| 5. God's Creative Presence |
| | 157 | (7) |
| 6. Divine Omnipresence and Omniscience |
| | 164 | (2) |
| 7. Divine Love and Omnipotence |
| | 166 | (3) |
| V THE GIFT OF GOD'S PRESENCE | | 169 | (42) |
| 1. The Distinction of Human Beings |
| | 169 | (4) |
| 2. The Impossibility of the Gift |
| | 173 | (3) |
| 3. The Unavoidability of the Gift |
| | 176 | (3) |
| 4. Save the Phenomena �� or Phenomenology? |
| | 179 | (3) |
| 5. Essence and Existence: The Interference of the World |
| | 182 | (1) |
| 6. Saying and Showing: Beyond the World of Phenomena |
| | 183 | (5) |
| 7. From Exchange to Giving: Gifts as Social Phenomena |
| | 188 | (2) |
| 8. From Intention to Interpretation: Gifts as Hermeneutical Phenomena |
| | 190 | (2) |
| 9. Communication: Gifts as Life-World Phenomena |
| | 192 | (3) |
| | 195 | (3) |
| | 198 | (3) |
| 12. The Ambivalence of Passivity: Deficiency or Chance? |
| | 201 | (1) |
| 13. Religious Interpretations of Passivity |
| | 202 | (1) |
| 14. Towards a Theology of the Gift |
| | 203 | (8) |
| VI RE-PRESENTING GOD'S PRESENCE | | 211 | (42) |
| | 211 | (3) |
| 2. God's Mediate Immediacy |
| | 214 | (7) |
| 3. Cognitive Re-Presentation: Interpreting Possibilities |
| | 221 | (7) |
| 4. Multiple Senses: Dependence, Trust and Presence |
| | 228 | (3) |
| 5. Pluriform Self-Presentation: The Spirit as Mediation |
| | 231 | (4) |
| 6. Understanding the Change: Becoming Present in the Present |
| | 235 | (7) |
| 7. Religious Communication |
| | 242 | (11) |
| 7.1 Religious Communication in the Mode of Music |
| | 243 | (5) |
| 7.2 Religious Communication in the Verbal Mode |
| | 248 | (5) |
| VII CONFLICTING RE-PRESENTATIONS | | 253 | (20) |
| 1. Religions in a World of Many Cultures |
| | 253 | (2) |
| | 255 | (2) |
| | 257 | (1) |
| 4. Religions and Cultures |
| | 258 | (2) |
| | 260 | (1) |
| 6. Transformative Contemplation |
| | 261 | (3) |
| 7. Differences and Conflicts |
| | 264 | (1) |
| | 265 | (3) |
| | 268 | (5) |
| Bibliography | | 273 | (14) |
| Name Index | | 287 | |
