Retrieving Freedom: Catholic Ideas for a Secular World

D. C. Schindler is professor of metaphysics and anthropology at the John Paul II Institute, Washington, DC. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Freedom from Reality: The Diabolical Character of Modern Liberty.

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Preface

Part I: Prolegomena

1. Christian Freedom and Its Traditions

Part II: Late Antiquity

2. Plotinus on Freedom as Generative Perfection

3. Augustine and the Gift of the Power to Choose

Part III: The Patristic Period

4. Perfectly Natural Freedom in Dionysius the Areopagite

5. Maximus the Confessor: Redeeming Choice

Part IV: The Early Middle Ages

6. St. Anselm: Just Freedom

7. Bernard of Clairvaux: Liberating Love

Part V: The High Middle Ages

8. Bonaventure on the Trinitarian Origin of Freedom

9. Thomas Aquinas: A Fruitful Reception of the Whole

Part VI: The Late Middle Ages

10. Godfrey of Fontaines: The Absolute Priority of Act

11. John Duns Scotus and the Radicalizing of Potency

Part VII: General Conclusion

12. The Givenness of Freedom

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