God in Our Relationships

There are presences between us, in our relationships with each other.

Preface

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction

xiii

Part One Our Daily Encounters

Always Unexpected

3

(3)

From I-It Experience to I-Thou Encounter

6

(2)

Some Differences between I-It and I-Thou

8

(3)

Buber's Theology of Relationships

11

(3)

I-It: The Cradle of I-Thou

14

(2)

I-It and I-Thou in Professional and Helping Relationships

16

(4)

I-It: Limited and Seductive

20

(2)

I-It Darkens and Hardens

22

(5)

Part Two I-It: A Spirit in Eclipse---Seven Stories

Eclipsed by the Race

27

(2)

Eclipsed by the Equipment

29

(4)

Eclipsed by the Pace

33

(2)

Eclipsed by Itself

35

(3)

Eclipsed by Possessions

38

(3)

Eclipsed by the Past

41

(1)

One Voice Lifts Another

42

(2)

The Afterglow

44

(5)

Part Three I-Thou: When One Voice Lifts Another

Chance Encounter

49

(2)

Voices Rise between People

51

(4)

Rising Voices Are Transcendent

55

(2)

Rising Voices Obscure Time, Space, and Cause

57

(2)

Voices Rise Here and Now

59

(2)

Rising Voices: Unpredictable, Arriving by Grace, and Unique

61

(2)

Rising Voices: A Capella and Accompanied

63

(2)

Rising Voices Leave an Afterglow

65

(4)

Part Four I-Thou on the Narrow Ridge

Risk

69

(3)

Mismeeting, Blurring, Oscillation, and Enrichment

72

(3)

The Narrow Ridge

75

(2)

Growing into I-Thou

77

(3)

Over and Against

80

(4)

The New Thinking

84

(2)

Imagine the Real

86

(3)

Community, Strife, and Holy Insecurity

89

(2)

The Last Row

91

(6)

Part Five Eternal Thou: A Leap of Faith

Entering the Eternal

97

(2)

I-Thou: Delicate and Eternal

99

(3)

All Living Is Meeting

102

(2)

Eternal Thou

104

(2)

Eternal Thou: Jewish Roots

106

(2)

The Jewish Mystical Tradition

108

(2)

Urgency

110

(2)

Becoming the Master

112

(2)

Epilogue: At Day's End

114

(2)

Notes

116

(3)

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God in Our Relationships

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