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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword by Alice von Hildebrand
Preface by Leo Scheffczyk
Preface by Dietrich von Hildebrand
Purity
Chapter One: Sex Distinguished from Other Bodily Appetites
Chapter Two: The Relation of Sex to the Spiritual Life
Chapter Three: The Three Aspects of Sex
Chapter Four: Impurity
Chapter Five: Purity and “Insensuality”
Chapter Six: Purity as a Positive Virtue
(a) The attitude of the pure
(b) The pure man’s specific perception of value and his response to it
(c) The indispensable supernatural foundation of purity
(d) Note on the attitude of the pure to art
Chapter Seven: The Intrinsic Dangers of Sex
Chapter Eight: The Reformation of Sex Effected by Wedded Love
Chapter Nine: Recapitulation: The Ideal of Wedded Purity
Virginity
Introductory
The Nature of Consecration
Chapter Ten: The Nuptial Relationship with Christ Common to All Souls in Grace, and the Special Marriage of the Consecrated Virgin
Chapter Eleven: The Ascetical Significance of Virginity
Chapter Twelve: Virginity as Undividedness
Chapter Thirteen: The Positive Mission of Natural Goods and the Condition under Which Their Renunciation is Supernaturally Fruitful
Chapter Fourteen: Virginity as an External Form of Life and the Outward Sign That All Things Are Forsaken for Jesus’s Sake
Chapter Fifteen: The Secret of Virginity as Wedlock with Christ
Conclusion: Consecrated Virginity as a State of Love
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