Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Preface xv
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. Prologue
7. The Gnosis with a True Name 5
8. The First Stage
9. Trinity and Creation 33
10. The Second Stage
11. The Inevitable “Failure” of Nicholas of Cusa 45
12. The Essence of the Symbol 55
13. The Third Stage
14. The Constitution of Man According to the New Testament 75
15. The Fourth Stage
16. Love and Gnosis in the Crucified Mediator 93
17. The Human Ternary and the Opening of the Heart in the Old Testament 103
18. The Fifth Stage
19. Love of Self and Love of God 119
20. The Sixth Stage
21. The Trinitarian Functions of the Hypostases 135
22. The Seventh Stage
23. The Essence and Forms of the “Body of Christ” 153
24. The “Body of Christ” and the Work of Salvation 163
25. The Metaphysics of the Eternal Exposition 173
26. Endnotes 181
27. Select Bibliography 205
28. Name and Theme Index 207
29. Scriptural Index 213