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Contents Attempted Reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Participation in the Visibility of the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 The Inner Dimension of Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Intimacy—The Hidden Meaning of Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
5. Man in the Dimension of Gift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 A. The Spousal Meaning of the Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Creation as Giving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Giving and Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Gift—Mystery of a Beatifying Beginning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Discovery of the “Spousal” Meaning of the Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 “Freedom of the Gift”—Foundation of the Spousal Meaning of the Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 The “Spousal Character” of the Body and the Revelation of the Person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 The Spousal Meaning of the Body as the Fruit of Rootedness in Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 B. The Mystery of Original Innocence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Gift to the Human Heart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Original Innocence and Consciousness of the Spousal Meaning of the Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Innocence at the Foundation of the Exchange of the Gift . . . . . . . . . . 194 Exchange of the Gift—Interpretation of Genesis 2:25 . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 Theology of Original Innocence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 The Root of the Ethos of the Human Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 The Foundation of the Primordial Sacrament— The Body as Sign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
6. “Knowledge” and Procreation (Gen 4:1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Between Poverty of Expression and Depth of Meaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 “Knowledge” as Personal Archetype. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Fatherhood and Motherhood as the Human Meaning of “Knowledge” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Knowledge and Possession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Knowledge Stronger than Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
7. [Conclusion: An Integral Vision] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
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