Preface 1. Without Roots: The Current Malaise of Western Culture The West's Cultural Heritage: Christianity or Enlightenment? The Exhaustion of Secularism The Return of Religion 2. The Beginnings of Incarnational Humanism Greco-Roman Antecedents Patristic Humanism Christology and the Incarnation The Imago Dei The Heart of Patristic Humanism: Deification The Correlation of Reason and Faith The Fruits of Reason: Education as Transformative Participation in the Divine Word The Foundation of a Common Humanity Eucharistic Humanism and Human Solidarity Conclusion 3. The Further Development of Christian Humanism Medieval Humanism Conclusion Renaissance Humanism Introduction The Retrieval of Patristic Theology The Incarnation and the Imago Dei Humanistic Education The Importance of the Incarnation Christian Humanism after the Renaissance Conclusion 4. The Rise of Anti-Humanism The Beginning of the End: The Unity of Mind and Being in Kant and Hegel Nietzsche's Anti-Platonism and the Birth of Anti-Humanism Nietzsche's Anti-Humanism Heirs: Michel Foucault and Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger: From Anti-Humanism to Hyper-Humanism Conclusion 5. Still No Incarnation: From Anti-Humanism to the Postmodern God Levinas's Humanism of the Other The Disincarnate God of Continental Philosophy Gianni Vattimo: Incarnation Without Transcendence Weak Thought or Weak Theology? Vattimo's Heideggerian Christianity Problems With Vattimo's Incarnational Ontology Conclusion 6. Incarnational Humanism as Cultural Philosophy God's Presence in the World: Sacred and Secular God's Presence in the Church The Heart of the Church: The Eucharist The Sacrament of the Word Eucharistic Humanism: The Link Between Church and World Conclusion Bibliography Name Index Subject Index Scripture Index.