This highly personal account of a lifetime's spiritual and philosophical enquiry charts the author's journey of faith through contemporary culture. Distinguishing between what she posits as the 'universal' and the 'rhapsodic' logos, Tymieniecka interrogates concepts as varied as creativity and the media, joy and suffering, and truth and ambiguity. She contemplates the possibilities and limits of communication between human beings, and outlines what she calls the 'transnatural destiny' of the human soul.

The book asserts that unlike theory, which unfolds a logical continuity, and unlike dialogue, which is directed sequentially upward toward intellectual conclusions, the mode of reflection of the 'rhapsodic logos' imposes no limits or caps upon its understanding. Instead, the 'logoic' flow interlaces the rhapsodic cadences of our reflections on reality, in all their innumerable fluctuations, and sifts them to mold the intimate mind/soul inwardness that we experience as faith.

The radiative meditations of this 'rhapsodic logos' weave their way through the entanglements of the mystery of incarnation, the constitutive archetypes, the inwardly sacred, the transnatural destiny of the soul, and finally ascend the rhapsodic scales toward culminating faith in the Christo-Logos.

Offers the fruits of life-long meditation; a philosophical witness detailing a spiritual journey in contemporary culture Explains how the rhapsodic mode mediates all spheres of reality, from incarnation to the transnatural destiny of the soul, elevating them into a sacral meditation

Autorentext
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka is a Polish-born American philosopher, one of the most important and continuously active contemporary phenomenologists, founder and president of "The World Phenomenology Institute".

Inhalt
Preface.-Pro-logos.-Pars I.-A period of preparation for faiththe first sermon of timothy the dispossessed:the quest.-Pars II.-Glimmerings.-The second sermon of timothy the dispossessed:does god speak to the soul?.-Pars III.-The window upon the absolute.-Pars IV.-Opening the window to the absolute.-Pars V.-Retracing our steps to the cave, illuminating it.-Pars VI.-In the pursuit of truth.-Pars VII.-Embodiment: our inward drama situated within the world of life, nature, and the cosmosthe third sermon of timothy:.-The mystery of incarnationpars.- Pars VIII.-The constitutive archetypes:the image of god emerging at the furthest borders of conscious dealings with our primordial condition ofcontingent existence.-Pars IX.-The inward sacredpars.- Pars X.-The transnatural destiny of the soul.-.