Finding the Treasure: Locating Catholic Religious Life in a New Ecclesial and Cultural Context Religious Life in a New Millenium - Vol. 1 by Sandra M. Schneiders, IHM   Preface to Religious Life in a New Millenium -- pg. ix Abbreviations -- pg. xix Introduction -- pg. xxiii   Part One:   Locating Religious Life in Its Human Context Chapter One Religious Life as a Human Phenomenon among the World's Religions: Monastics, Virgins, Virtuosi -- pg. 3 Introduction -- pg. 3 The Anthropological Archetype: The Monk -- pg. 5 The Psychological Archetype: The Virgin -- pg. 18 The Sociological Ideal Type: The Religious Virtuoso -- pg. 32 Summary and Conclusions -- pg. 38 Chapter Two Religious Life as an Organic Lifeform: Getting It Together -- pg. 41 Introduction -- pg. 41 Mapping the Contours of the Issue -- pg. 42 Clarifying Issues of Similarity and Difference -- pg. 50 Identity -- pg. 51 Analogy -- pg. 51 Common Elements of Faith and/or Lifestyle -- pg. 52 The Fundamental Issue: Religious Life as a Lifeform -- pg. 54 Meaning of Lifeform -- pg. 54 The Coordinates and Dimensions of Catholic Religious Life as a Lifeform -- pg. 57 Evolution, Mutation, and Dissolution of Lifeforms -- pg. 62 The Life and Death Questions Facing Religious Life as a Lifeform -- pg. 66 The First Dependent Issue: Inclusiveness -- pg. 68 Source of Sensitivity About Inclusiveness -- pg. 68 Inclusivity in the Gospel -- pg. 70 The Illusory Character of the "Ideal" of Total Inclusivity -- pg. 72 Conclusion -- pg. 76 The Second Dependent Issue: Number and the Future -- pg. 78 The Fixation on Numbers in Ministerial Congregations -- pg. 79 Numbers and Religious Life -- pg. 81 Numbers and Ministry -- pg. 84 Numbers and Finances -- pg. 88 Discernment -- pg. 90 Should Religious Life Continue? -- pg. 91 The Membership Issue as Invitation of the Spirit -- pg. 93 Chapter Three Religious Life in a Postmodern Context: Faith and Fidelity against the Grain -- pg. 99 Introduction: Seven Hundred Years in Three Decades -- pg. 99 From Modernity to Postmodernity in Thirty Years -- pg. 106 Religious Life as a Unified Spiritual Project -- pg. 107 The Changed Ecclesial and Cultural Context -- pg. 110 Implications for Religious Life -- pg. 117 Part Two:   Locating Religious Life in Its Ecclesial Context Chapter Four Religious Life as a Theological Reality in the Church: Consecrated Celibacy and the Vocation to Prophecy -- pg. 123 Transition and Introduction -- pg. 123 Consecrated Celibacy as Constitutive Principle of Religious Life -- pg. 126 "Defining" Religious Life -- pg. 127 Celibacy as Constitutive of Religious Life -- pg. 129 The Coordinates of Religious Life as Prophetic Vocation -- pg. 137 Prophecy and Social justice: Challenging and Changing Systems -- pg. 138 Prophecy and Postmodernism: Living the Questions -- pg. 144 Conclusion -- pg. 150 Chapter Five Religious Life in Spriritual Transformation I: Vatican II and Renewal, an Active Dark Night? -- pg. 153 Introduction -- pg. 153 Features of the Contemporary Experience of Religious Life -- pg. 154 The "Dark Night" in John of the Cross -- pg. 159 The Active Night and the Experience of Contemporary Religious -- pg. 160 The Active Night of Sense and Contemporary Experience -- pg. 161 The Active Night of Spirit and Contemporary Experience -- pg. 163 The Passive Night and the Experience of Contemporary Religious -- pg. 168 The Transition from the Active tot he Passive Night -- pg. 169 The Passive Night of Sense -- pg. 170 Chapter Six Religious Life in Spiritual Transformation II: Enlightenment and Postmodernity, a Passive Dark Night? -- pg. 183 Transition -- pg. 183 The Passive Night of Sense and the Enlightenment -- pg. 185 The Passive Night of Spirit and Postmodernity -- pg. 190 The Effect of Postmodernity on Religious Consciousness -- pg. 192 Resources from the Mystical Tradition -- pg. 197 Significance of the Analogy for Contemporary Religious Experience -- pg. 203 Discerning What Is Happening -- pg. 206 Responding Faithfully -- pg. 207 Chapter Seven Religious Life as an Ecclesiastical Reality I: Where and with Whom? -- pg. 210 Introduction -- pg. 210 Sorting Out the Terminology of Ecclesiastical Distinctions -- pg. 214 Hierarchical or Class Organization -- pg. 215 Canonical Status -- pg. 215 Theological States of life -- pg. 219 Sources of Confusion in the Present Situation -- pg. 234 Mandatory Singleness of the Secular Clergy -- pg. 234 The "Sexualization" of Distinctions in the Church -- pg. 237 The Confusion around the Term Lay -- pg. 239 Chapter Eight Religious Life as an Ecclesiastical Reality II: Who and Why? -- pg. 242 Transition -- pg. 242 The Identity Crisis in Religious Life -- pg. 242 The Reaffirmation of the Dignity and Mission of the Baptized -- pg. 243 The Revision of the Church's Theology of Sexuality -- pg. 247 Contemporary Issues Generated by the Placement of Religious in the Church -- pg. 252 The Prophetic Vocation of Religious in a Reforming Church -- pg. 252 Canonical Status -- pg. 257 Religious and Ordination -- pg. 264 Conclusions -- pg. 280 Chapter Nine Religious Life as Charism I: Many-Leveled Gift in Many Forms -- pg. 282 Transition and Introduction -- pg. 282 The Category of "Charism" in Relation to Religious Life -- pg. 283 The Emergence of the Ministerial Prophetic Charism -- pg. 289 Sketching the History -- pg. 290 Drawing Some Conclusions -- pg. 297 Distinguishing the Ministerial Charism from the Monastic Charism -- pg. 301 Conclusion -- pg. 311 Chapter Ten Religious Life as Charism II: Prophets in Their Own Country -- pg. 313 Introduction and Transition -- pg. 313 Prophetic Spirituality -- pg. 315 The Basic Conditions of Prophecy -- pg. 316 The Spirituality of the Prophetic Vocation -- pg. 320 Arenas of Prophetic Presence in North America at the Turn of the Century -- pg. 335 Interreligious Encounter -- pg. 335 The Dialectic between Religion and Spirituality -- pg. 340 Feminism in the Ecclesial Context -- pg. 350 Summary and Conclusion Conclusion -- pg. 359 Appendix -- pg. 365 Notes -- pg. 367 Works Cited -- pg. 425 Index -- pg. 445