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XII. A metacosmic world order -- A redeemed social order must be sacramental -- The medieval vision and the source of its practical failure -- Contributions of Karl Marx to scientific social understanding -- Function of the political state -- Marx's view of the foundation of religion -- The Marxian social objective: "withering away" of the political state and the disappearance of religion -- The Marxian view of the disappearance of religion -- The necessary Christian witness -- A Christian analogue of the Marxian error -- Agreement of Christians and Marxists upon immediate goals -- A brief recapitulation -- The withering away of the state and the establishment of the church -- The church's offertory in a socialist order: the Christian duty to work for this end. ; VIII. The liturgy and the atonement -- Sins and contingencies -- Defects within the offertory: penance and absolution -- Contingencies: their classification and the conditions for their consecration -- The contingencies of the first group -- The attempted reduction of these contingencies by severing relationships with the world -- The incarnational method of dealing with contingencies -- Conditions for the application of the atonement to contingencies of the first group -- Scientific economic understanding a modern development -- The possession of a material basis for rational social planning also a modern phenomenon -- Present meaning of reconciliation with out brother -- Contingencies of the second group -- Contingencies of the third group -- IX. Character of the secular order now demanded by the liturgy -- No answer in Christian dogma -- a problem for enlightened human reason -- Possibility and means of agreement among Christian upon secular problems -- Some practical considerations -- Problem of secular violence: relation of means and ends -- Evolution and revolution in social change -- Present social revolution moving in a Christian direction -- Christian offertory rooted in the world's material arrangement -- X. Material basis of metacosmesis -- The material basis of spiritual relationships in the offertory -- Dangers of parallelism in thinking of spiritual and material things -- The material basis of the consecration -- Metacosmic cycle borne upon a movement within the material level -- Urgency of the memorial -- XI. Characteristics of a sacramental metacosmic humanity -- The apostolic church -- The church in later ages -- The natural and the supernatural virtues -- The tension between personal freedom and corporate social allegiance -- Human resolutions of this tension always sought in compromise -- Full resolution found in the incarnation -- Sources of defects in the metacosmic humanity of the contemporary church ; V. Metacosmesis -- Remarkable qualities of our Lord's earthly humanity -- Our Lord's earthly humanity a true humanity -- Source of the remarkable qualities of our Lord's humanity -- Definition of metacosmesis -- Social extension of metacosmesis during our Lord's earthly life -- Social metacosmesis rendered incomplete by human sin -- VI. Metacosmesis after the ascension -- Problem of the continuation of our Lord's social humanity after his individual ascension -- What happened at Pentecost -- Evidence of metacosmesis in the life of the early church -- The means of the Church's access to the metacosmic process -- Our Lord's historical life made eternally accessible -- Historical and eternal aspects of our Lord's life and work -- The eternal Lord incarnate present in his memorial -- The natural bread and wine of our Lord's social humanity -- Natural bread and wine as structures of creative social growth -- Our Lord's memorial as a twofold movement -- Contingencies found in the offered natural bread and wine -- The absolute perfection of the bread and wine in their consecration -- The memorial as a sacrifice -- Completion of the cycle of metacosmesis in the holy communion -- VII. The liturgy of the memorial of our Lord's body and blood -- Its threefold structure -- The offertory -- Misconception concerning the offertory -- The offertory and the immaculate conception of our Lord's mother -- The offertory and the baptized community -- The offertory and symbolic liturgical emphasis -- The consecration: thanksgiving and remembrance -- The meaning of thanksgiving -- The meaning of remembrance -- Consecration as sacrifice -- Priest and victim within the consecration -- Representative character of the church's ministers -- The holy communion -- Our Lord's memorial as the heart of his social humanity ; I. Some basic philosophical concepts -- The centrality of the sacrament of the altar -- Two opposing views of the material world -- The non-Christian analysis: world as essentially evil -- The Christian analysis: world as essentially good -- The source of evil traced to man -- Christian idea of salvation -- Non-Christian confusion in Christian thinking -- II. The problem of the redemption of the world: First stage -- Problem from the point of view of man: the obstacle of disorder in history -- A practical illustration of the time problem -- A philosophical illustration of the time problem -- Problem from the point of view of God: obstacle of man's free reason -- The incarnation as the solution of both problems -- Method of the incarnation: its individual organism -- Summary: solution of the problems of time and of the conservation of human freedom -- Our lady as the prototype of redeemed and free humanity -- Incarnational definition of redemption -- III. The problem of the redemption of the world: second stage -- The redemption of man carries beyond the natural world -- The limitations of perfection attainable in the natural world -- Redeemed perfection in this world always contingent -- Human salvation requires an absolute perfection -- Mediation of the contingent into the absolute: the two natures of our Lord -- IV. Meditation as sacrifice -- Failure of pre-Christian sacrifices -- Our Lord's sacrifice: full attainment of its end -- The effects of mediating sacrifice -- Contingent perfection as the necessary basis of absolute perfection ; Mode of access: Internet.