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| Preface | |
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| The Claim Continues | |
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| How to Enter into an Understanding of the Church | |
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| A Fundamental Presupposition | |
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| Being in Tune With the Phenomenon | |
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| Training the Focus on the Originality of Christianity | |
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| The Heart of the Church Problem | |
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| The First Premise: How to Attain Certainty about the Fact of Christ Today | |
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| The Rationalistic Attitude | |
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| An Inner Enlightenment | |
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| The Orthodox-Catholic View | |
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| A Gaze That Values the Other Positions | |
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| The Second Premise: The Contemporary Difficulty in Understanding the Meaning of Christian Words | |
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| Becoming Aware of a Difficulty | |
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| The Middle Ages from the Point of View of Disseminating a Mentality | |
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| Humanism From the Point of View of the Disarticulation of a Mentality | |
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| The Renaissance: A View of Nature as the Ultimate Source of Human Energy | |
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| Rationalism: The Difficulty of Man Conceived in the Abstract | |
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| The Common Denominator of the Three Factors | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Constituent Factors of the Christian Phenomenon in History | |
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| The Continuity of Jesus Christ: Root of the Church's Self-Awareness | |
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| The Path We Will Follow | |
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| The Link with Jesus Christ | |
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| The Three Constituent Factors | |
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| The Reality of a Sociologically Identifiable Community | |
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| The Community Invested by a "Strength from on High" | |
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| A New Type of Life | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Effective Sign of the Divine in History | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Church's Self-Definition | |
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| The Human Factor | |
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| Through Human Reality | |
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| Implications | |
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| A Mission of the Church: Towards Earthly Man | |
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| The Definitive Word on Man and History | |
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| A Continuous Reminder | |
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| The Best Position for Facing Human Problems | |
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| The Problems of Man | |
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| The Church's Task is Not to Resolve Human Problems | |
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| Facilitating Aspects of a Truly Lived Freedom | |
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| The Work of Every Man | |
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| Religiosity Will Never Be Wholly Lived in History | |
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| The Christian's Moral Tension | |
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| The Divine in the Church | |
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| The Self-Communication of Truth: Community, Tradition, Magisterium | |
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| The Self-Communication of a Divine Reality | |
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| Verifying the Presence of the Divine in the Life of the Church | |
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| The Locus of Verification: Human Experience | |
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| What the Church Demands as the Criterion of Judgment | |
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| On the Use of a Criterion of Judgment in Its Utmost Expression | |
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| Openness of Heart | |
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| "The Tree Can Be Told by Its Fruit" | |
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| Unity | |
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| Holiness | |
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| Catholicity | |
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| Apostolicity | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |