Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

1. Spiritual Responsibility and the Rise of a World View -- The Deficiency of Classical Thought -- Developing a Starting Point -- A Word about Procedure -- 2. Types of Truth and Methods of Knowing -- The Rise of the Third Method of Knowing -- The Naming of an Absolute Truth -- Philosophy and Personal Responsibility -- The Two Kinds of Truth -- The Third Kind of Truth -- The Two Conventional Methods of Knowing -- The Limitations of Knowledge by Acquaintance -- The Limitations of Knowledge by Inference -- The Third Method of Knowing -- The Relation between the Three Methods of Knowing -- The Three Conditions of Knowing -- A Final Review -- 3. A Preliminary Probe -- Transition through Aesthetics -- A Plain and Simple Experiment in the City Park -- The Discovery of a Universal Starting Point -- Descartes' Starting Point -- Aristotle and the Law of Contradiction -- The Law of Contradiction and Moral Self-Acceptance -- The Law of Uniformity and Moral Self-Acceptance -- The Realism of the Third Method of Knowing.

4. Moral Self-Acceptance and Social Relations -- A Refinement of Procedure -- Finding an Index to Human Actions -- Challenging the Theory that all Morals are Relative -- Moral Self-Acceptance and Values -- Moral Self-Acceptance and Social Relations -- Our Moral Demands on Strangers -- Moral Responsibility when Entering Friendship -- Moral Demands on Friendship -- The Second Criterion -- The Problem of Animals -- Conscience and Moral Relativity -- The Paradox of Morals -- The Balance of Moral Self-Acceptance as a Method -- Kierkegaard -- 5. Moral Self-Acceptance and the Judicial Sentiment -- A Transition through Kant's Practical Imperative -- An Empirical Trial of the Practical Imperative -- A Further Clarification of Procedure -- Human Rights and Moral Self-Acceptance -- The Judicial Sentiment -- The Judicial Predicament -- Harmonizing Duty and Desire -- The Reality of the Administrator of Justice -- The Elimination of False Alternatives -- The Person of God as the Administrator of Justice -- Kant's Appeal to Conscience -- A Final Word about Kant.

6. Preparations for Meeting God -- Going Beyond Spinoza -- Going Beyond Aristotle -- Extending the Cycle of Fellowship -- Spiritual Preparation and the Perception of Truth -- The Moral Predicament -- The Character of God -- The Univocal Point of Identity Between Time and Eternity -- The Problem of God's Finitude -- The Problem of Evil -- Moral Self-Acceptance and the Terms of Fellowship -- The Anatomy of Humility -- 7. The Admission of Guilt -- A revision of Procedure -- The Paradox of Humility -- Direct and Indirect Fulfillment -- The Two Qualities of Moral Response -- A Clarification of Direction -- The Anatomy of an Apology -- Why We Cannot Apologize to God -- The Anatomy of Repentance -- The Problem of Repenting Before God -- 8. Defining the Law of Life -- The Pith and Marrow of the Imperative Essence -- The Law By Which We Judge Others -- The Law of Justice -- Difficulties with Justice -- Justice and Repentance -- Exceptions to Justice -- The Problem of Evidences -- A Further Word about the Counsel of Christ -- Why we must Humbly Ask a Favor -- The Law of Consideration -- Implications and Inferences -- A New Dimension to the Moral Predicament -- The Dialectic of Striving -- Consideration and Repentance -- Justice and Consideration -- Beyond Consideration -- The Law of Love.

9. The Logic of Repentance -- The Paradox of Moral Striving -- Venturing a Radical Hypothesis -- Selfishness and the Judicial Sentiment -- A Check against Haste -- A Faulty Application of Method -- A Correction of Procedure -- The Buttressing Force of Cumulative Evidences -- Tragic Moral Choices -- The Claims of Love on the Heart -- The Conditional Element in Conscience -- The Problem of the Heathen -- A Final Review of the Moral Predicament -- Why it is Necessary to Repent -- 10. Christ the Power and the Wisdom of God -- The Possibilities and Limits of Human Wisdom -- The Judicial Sentiment in God -- The Cross of Christ -- The Cross and Personal Repentance -- The Filial Bond -- Objections to Positional Righteousness -- The Principle of Federal Headship -- Objections to Federal Headship -- Objections to Total Depravity -- Saving Faith -- God's Sovereignty and the Problem of Evil -- The Filial Bond and the Problem of Evil -- The Dialogue of Habakkuk -- The Faith of Abraham -- Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning -- The Problem of Evil and the Cross of Christ -- 11. The Finality of Jesus Christ -- The Verification of the Christian World View -- A Terminal Difficulty -- The Protestant Reformation -- Christianity and Other World Religions -- The Height and Depth of the Religious Perspective -- The Righteousness of Correct Thinking -- The Righteousness of Self-Denial -- The Righteousness of Keeping the Law -- Conclusion.