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| Preface and acknowledgements | |
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| Religion and spirituality: from praxis to belief | |
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| From analysis to exercise | |
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| Why praxis must come first | |
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| The heart has its reasons | |
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| Trust and the corrections of reason | |
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| Religion and science: theodicy in an imperfect universe | |
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| Religion and the standards of inference | |
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| Are religious claims explanatory hypotheses? | |
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| The problem of evil and the nature of matter | |
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| The dust of the earth | |
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| Detachment, intervention, participation | |
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| Proof, consistency, and faith | |
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| Religion and value: the problem of heteronomy | |
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| Submission to God: an obsolete ideal? | |
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| Autonomy and dependency | |
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| The metaphysics of value | |
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| God as source of morality | |
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| Objectivity and its basis | |
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| Religion and self-discovery: the interior journey | |
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| A triangle of tension | |
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| Psychoanalysis and philosophy | |
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| Psychoanalytic critiques of religion | |
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| Two responses to Freud | |
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| Moral improvement, psychoanalytic reflection, and the religious quest | |
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| Religion and language: emotion, symbol, and fact | |
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| Modes of discourse | |
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| Emotion and layers of meaning | |
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| The emotional dynamic | |
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| The importance of layering | |
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| Meaning and justification | |
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| Religion and the Enlightenment: modernist and postmodernist obstacles | |
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| The stigma of metaphysics | |
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| The supposed legacy of the Enlightenment | |
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| Naturalism and contemporary philosophical orthodoxy | |
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| The religious counter: an unpromising postmodernist reply | |
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| Enlightenment and faith | |
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| Religion and the good life: the epistemic and moral resources of spirituality | |
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| What it means to believe | |
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| Faith and evidence | |
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| Traces of the transcendent | |
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| Horizons of knowledge and intimations of the beyond | |
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| Moral psychology and the cultivation of virtue | |
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| Dimensions of askesis | |
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| From psychotherapy to spirituality | |
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| Religion and pluralism: which spirituality? | |
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| Recapitulation | |
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| Which path? | |
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| Mysticism and the apophatic tradition | |
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| From mystery to liturgy | |
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| Distinctive culture and common humanity | |
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| Images of integration | |
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| Bibliography | |