XIX. Lost Soul In Purgatory

A. Only In It For The Money
1. The Lawful Process of Capital Formation
2. The Descent of Liberalism
3. Manifestation of Liberal Absolutism
4. The Business of Business
5. The Expectation of A Normal Profit: Competitive Return on Investment
6. The Oxymoron of Redistributive Justice

B. The Quest for the Faith of Liberal Virtue
1. The Loss of Faith of the Second Founding
2. A Flawed Conception of the Faith
3. The Device of Our Soul's Thanatosis
4. The Antithetical Theology
5. The Discontent of the American Soul

C. Cultivation of Civic Virtue
1. Economic Virtue and Positive Apathy
2. Freedom from Government
3. The Road to Serfdom
4. Civic Competence
5. A Fatal Conceit
6. Enhancement of Labor Power
7. The Generation of Social Surplus
8. Gospel of Wealth Creation and Republican Virtue

D. Duty and Interest
1. The Bank War Sympton
2. Lincolnomics
3. Overcoming Faction
4. Harmony of Interests
5. Interest and Virtue
6. Property and Liberty
7.The Grevious Fault of Ambition
8. A Dark View of Human Fraility
9. A Determined Fall
10. Literary Battles

E. Framing the Republic of Virtue
1. The Social Test
2. A Theology of Resolution Ethics
3. Virtue and Machinery of Government
4. Of Ants and Sheep and Men
5. Class Conflict: An Artifact of the Earlier Democracy
6. Progressivism and the First Principles
7. Governmental Reinvigoration of Civic Virtue
8. Madisonian Frustration of Popular Will
9. The Failure of Progressivism
10. The Visible Hand

F. Return to the Sacred
1. The Search for the Holy Grail
2. Reaching to Melville and Lincoln
3. Virtue Must Come Down From Aloft
4. Promotionalism in Lincoln

G. Sins of the Flesh
1. The Sins of Capitalism
2. The Evils of Technology
3. Capitalism and War
4. Capitalism and Labor Power
5. Capitalism and Peace

H. Diggins' Disconnect of Interest and Virtue

1. Association Principle
2. Diggins' Decapitation of Development
3. The Lost Soul in Purgatory
4. The Good Society To Mend the Broken Covenant
5. The Anti-Geist Posed

XX. The Construct As Analytic Instrument

A. Myths of Origin
1. Mozart and Class
2. Willed Initiative in Bellah
3. Private Vice and Public Virtue
4. Bellum Omnium and Social Compact
5. Delimiting Individuals or Delimiting Government
6. Interest and Virtue

B. The Failure of the Faith of Bellah
1. A Shell for Pursuit
2. External and Internal Covenants
3. Faults in the City on the Hill
4. Waiting for Godot
5. Glorification of Wealth
6. No Satisfaction
7. A Choseness That Slips Away

C. The Broken Covenant
1. Alternatives Cloaked in Anti-Wealth Collectivism
2. The Covenant of the Constitution
3. Covenant Restricting Remedy
4. The Heavenly City of the Filoque and Logos
5. The Pursuit of Profit

D. From Broken Covenant to New Covenant
1. Deep-Seeded Pessimism
2. Sisyphus
3. Loathing of the Military
4. The Uncompromising Ruthlessness of American Warfare
5. Class War
6. Industrialization and the Breakdown of Community
7. Poverty of Economics
8. A Moral National Community of a Socialist Side

E. Denunciation of the Civil Theology
1. Positive and Public Freedom
2. From Means to Ends
3. A Larger Religious and Moral Context
4. Bellah's Uneconomic Christianity
5. Christianity's Corrupted Republic
6. Apologies of Bellah

F. A Cacophony of Languages
1. Historical Stages of Bellah's Development
2. Habits of the Heart
3. Reaffirmation of the Original Prescribed Faith
4. Bellah's Liberal Absolutism

G. Tapping Deeper Sources of Our Tradition
1. The Public Church of Martin Marty
2. Seeking Schools of Citizenship
3. Disciples for Democratic Change
4. The Real School of Republican Virtue
5. Bellah's Vision of An Amoral and Irreligious People
6. Bellah's Common Good Requisite of Civil Theology
7. The Statist Control Mechanisms of Liberation
8. The Sources of Bellah's Revival

H. The Mystic Mechanisms of the Great Engine of Progress
1. The Quest for Redistributive Justice
2. Undermining Community
3. Subverting the Common Good
4. Sabotaging the General Will
5. Melville's Messiah
6. Bellah As Nathan
7. The Falsification Crisis of Liberalism

I. The Non-Euclidian Perspective of Carey
1. Acting for the Common Good
2. Entrusting Individual Initiative
3. The Superiority of Market Mechanisms
4. The Achievement of Civilization

J. The First Intimations of An Original American Philosophy of Labor and Production
1. The Association Principle of Carey
2. The Organic Whole of Industrial Society
3. The Prophet of the New Messiah
4. The Mechanics of Henry Ford
5. The New Heaven and the New Earth
6. The Salvation of Labor
7. Enhancement of Labor Power
8. Carey's Idea of Social Harmony
9. The Essence of Christianity
10. Virtual Theology

K. The American Civil Religion
1. An Essay on Wealth
2. The World Is Not Over-Populated; It Is Underdeveloped
3. On the Progress of Peoples
4. Distortion of Dialogue In Habermas
5. Discourse Ethics, Colonization of the Life World, General Will Subversion, and Legitimation Crisis
6. Pentacostal Association: Speaking in Tongues
7. The Symmetry of Our Languages
8. Producing the Material Means for Development of Civic Competence and Virtue
9. The Repository of A Collective Intelligence and Civilization
10. The Validity of Natural Law
11. The Spiritual Dimensions of Community
12. The Constitution of Virtue
13. A Tale of Two Cities

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