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| Introduction | |
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| The Direction of This Book | |
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| Pride and Self-Contempt | |
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| Psychological Critics of the "Low Self-Esteem" Argument | |
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| Social Critiques of Self-Centeredness | |
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| Rogers and Niebuhr as Representatives of the Debate | |
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| Reenactment of the Pelagian Controversy | |
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| The Larger Issue: Sin and Self-Acceptance | |
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| Pride As the Primary Problem | |
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| Anxiety and Pride: Niebuhrian Theological Psychology | |
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| Differences with Augustine | |
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| The Deceptive Nature of Sin | |
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| The Primacy of Pride | |
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| Warning About Equating Narcissism with Niebuhrian Pride | |
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| Summary | |
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| Pride, Sensuality and Addiction | |
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| Sensuality, Concupiscence and Addiction | |
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| From Augustine to Gerald MayBack to the Pride | |
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| Versus Self-Contempt Conflict | |
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| But Is Pride the Problem for Everyone? | |
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| Pride and Self-LossPride and Self-Loss | |
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| Socialized to Sin Differently? | |
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| Social Versus Individual Sin | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Self-Acceptance and Humanisstic Psychology | |
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| The "Gospel" of Humanistic Psychology | |
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| The Actualizing Tendency"Natural Goodness" | |
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| The Organismic Valuing Process | |
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| Incongruence and the Emergence of the Undervalued Self | |
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| Reclaiming the Despised Self"Theologizing" | |
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| Pride and Low Self-Esteem Intertwined? | |
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| Pride and Self-Hate: Two Sides of the Same Coin? | |
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| Basic Anxiety | |
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| Three Neurotic Trends to Alleviate Anxiety | |
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| Common Bonds in All Three Movements | |
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| The Idealized Self | |
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| Three Responses to the Idealized SelfPride and Self-Hate | |
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| The "Search for Glory" | |
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| "Neurotic Claims and Entitlement | |
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| Genuine Self-Esteem and Neurotic Pride | |
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| Horney's Contribution to the Pride Versus Self-Contempt Debate | |
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| Anxiety, Sin and Self-Understanding | |
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| Integrating the Pride and Self-Contempt Perspectives | |
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| Back to Niebuhr and Feminist Understandings of Sin | |
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| Pride and Distrust | |
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| Pride and Sensuality: A Confusion of Terms? | |
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| "Manly" and "Womanly" SinEquality of Sin, Inequality of Guilt | |
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| Anxiety and Its Relationship to Sin | |
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| Sinning Out of Strength as Well as Weakness | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |