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Meaning — a Question and a Commitment
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Hero and Saint — Mapping the Cultural Genome
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The Heroic Age — The Greek Worldview
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Heroism and the Tragic View of Life
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Plato — Politics, Justice, and Philosophy
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Plato's Republic — The Hero's Reward
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The Heroic Ideal in Late Stoicism
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"In the Beginning" — The Hebrew Worldview
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Father Abraham, the First Saint
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Saintly Types in the Hebrew Bible
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Jesus as Saintly Innovator — Forgiving Love
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Hero or Saint? Saul of Tarsus
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Hero or Saint? Augustine of Hippo
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Mohammed — The Prophet as Saintly Innovator
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Saint Francis and Dante — Saintly Troubadours
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The Agony and Ecstasy of Michelangelo
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Enlightenment Patterns of Cultural Mutation
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Mt. Moriah Revisited — Saintly Transgression
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A History of Suspicion — Marx, Darwin, Freud
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Nietzsche — The Return of the Tragic Hero
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Dostoevsky — The Return of the Saint
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A Century of Trauma
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The Quantum Leap
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Existentialism — Sartre and de Beauvoir
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Camus and the Absurd Hero
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Flannery O'Connor and the Mystery of Grace
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The Holocaust and the Crisis of Forgiveness
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Faulkner and Beckett — Images of the Forlorn
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Viktor Frankl — Freedom's Search for Meaning
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Simone Weil — Imagining the Secular Saint
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Simone Weil — a New Augustine?
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Identifying the Secular Saint
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The Secular Saint at the Movies
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Ernest Becker — The Denial of Death
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Terror and Hope in a Planetary Age
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The Secular Saint — Learning to Walk Upright