Author's Preface (to the German edition) Translator's Note BOOK 1: THE PROBLEM Section 1: Natural Morality 1. The Problem of the Good: an Imperative Challenge 2. The Phases of the Immanent Moral Understanding of the Self 3. Morality and the Religions of the World 4. The Rationalization of the Moral in Philosophical Ethics 5. The Deepening of the Problem by the Deepening of the Contradiction Section 2: The Christian Message and Natural Morality and Ethics 6. The Christian Message as the Revelation of the Good 7. The Christian Interpretation of the Contradiction as Sin 8. Justification by Grace alone as the Removal of the Contradiction and the Foundation of the Good 9. The Definition of the Christian Ethic 10. The Christian Ethic: Past and Present BOOK 2: THE DIVINE COMMAND Section 1: The Will of God as the Basis and the Norm of the Good 11. The Divine Command as Gift and Demand 12. The Command of the Creator and Redeemer 13. The Unity and the Variety of the Divine Command 14. The Threefold Meaning of the Law Section 2: The New Man 15. The New Man, as Created and Claimed by God 16. Goodness and the "Virtues" 17. Self- Affirmation and Self- Denial 18. The Better Righ teousness Section 3: The Neighbour 19. Service 20. The Calling 21. The Natural Orders and the Kingdom of God 22. Service as an "Office" and as a Personal Relation Section 4: The Works of Love 23. The Active Life as a Gift and a Demand 24. The Hallowing of the Means by the End 25. Autonomy, Natural Law, and Love 26. Success and Progress BOOK 3: THE ORDERS Introduction Section 1: The Individual, the Community, and the Orders of Society 27. The Individual and the Community 28. Religious and Moral Practice as Limiting Cases of the Moral a. Our Relation to God in the ethical sense: Religious Practice b. The Relation to the Self: Moral Practice 29. Life in Love 30. The Natural Forms of Community Section 2: The Community of Life: Marriage and the Family 31. The Fundamental Problem of Marriage 1. The Crisis of Marriage 2. The Argument for Monogamy: the Creation 3. Marriage as it is in Reality 32. Individual Problems Connected with Marriage 1. Marriage, Love, and Law 2. Divorce and Celibacy 3. Marriage and Children 4. Marriage and the Economic Question 5. The Emancipation of Woman, and the Relation between the Sexes apart from Marriage Section 3: The Community of Labour 33. Labour and Civilization 34. The Nature and the Task of the Economic Order 1. The Economic Order as a Prob lem of Ethics 2. Economic Life as an Infringement of the original Order of Creation 3. The Norm of the Economic Order 4. The Evil in the Economic Order 5. The Individual Economic Factors from the Ethical Point of View 35. The Christian in the Pre sent Economic Order 1. The Christian and the Capitalist System 2. The Search for a Better Order 3. The Task of the Christian within the Present Economic System 4. The Task of the Church in the Economic Struggle of the Present Day Section 4: The Community of the People and of Law 36. The Nature of the State 1. The Riddle of the State 2. The State as a God- given Order of Sinful Reality 3. The Power of the State 4. The Law 5. Law and Force 6. The Nation and the State 7. The State in its Relation to the other Forms of Community 37. The Acting Christian in the Acting State 1. The Attitude of the Christian towards the State 2. The Christian and "Reasons of State" 3. The Christian and the Form of the State 4. The Christian and Force: the Prob lem of War 5. The Christian and the Penal Law Section 5: The Community of Culture 38. The Christian in the Community of Culture 39. Science 40. Art 41. Education 42. The Free Forms of Community Section 6: The Community of Faith 43. The Nature of the Church 1. The Church of Faith 2. The Church as both Divine and Human 44. The Church in Action 1. The Church and the Churches 2. Church Order and Church Law 3. State Church, National Church, Free Church 4. Church and State 45. The Action of the Church 1. The Functions of the Church and the Offices of the Church 2. False and True Ecclesiasticism Notes and Appendices Index
