INTRODUCTION—In which we lay out this Book’s Principles and Mode of Procedure
PART ONE Introducing the Heart-Mind Interdisciplinary Issues Explored in this Book
1. Preliminary Issues in Fostering Buddhist-Christian-Muslim-Secularist Cooperation: Humanity’s Religious-Secular Divides and the Pivotal Roles that an Ethical Secularity can play
2. An all too Brief a Summary of Lonergan’s Generalized Empirical Method (GEM): An Overview of the Problem of “Knowing”: From Plato and Aristotle to Husserl and Lonergan
3. How GEM-FS Conversions May Help People of Good Will Foster a Global Secularity Ethics
PART TWO Sketching a GEM-FS Bridge’s Mediating Phase as Outlined in MiT’s First Four Specialties: Probing into Buddhist-Christian-Muslim Teachings so as to Best Broach a Global Secularity Ethics
Chapter 1 First Functional Specialty: Researching Data on Christianity, Islam and an Ethical Secularity
Chapter 2 Second Functional Specialty: Interpreting Religious Scriptures, Democracy, and Secularism so as to Avoid Misunderstandings or Resentment
Chapter 3 Third Functional Specialty: GEM-FS Judgments of Value and Historical Perspectives
Chapter 4 Fourth Functional Specialty: Dialectics Pointing to Where We Need to Go: GEM-FS’ Apophatic-Kataphatic Ability Can Help Integrate Secularity with the World’s Religions
PART THREE Sketching a GEM-FS Bridge’s Mediated Phase as Outlined in MiT’s Last Four Specialties: Toward Enabling Needed Transformative Changes among the Religions and Secularity
Chapter 5 Fifth Functional Specialty: Foundations and its Underlying Premises
Chapter 6 Sixth Functional Specialty: Policies based on a Logic of the Heart’s Value Judgments
Chapter 7 Seventh Functional Specialty: Adjusting, Transforming Systems
Chapter 8 Eighth Functional Specialty: Communicating so as to Overcome Intolerance
CONCLUSION
A SHORT GLOSSARY of Islamic Terms in Relation to this Book’s GEM-FS Process
INDEX