9 CONTENTS Introduction .............................................................................. 13 The Question and Considerations regarding the Methodological Orientation ..................................................... 13 Regarding the Format of the Study ................................................ 15 0 Regarding the Ecclesial Experience of Vincent Pallotti ................................................................... 19 0.1 Time of Upheaval ........................................................................... 21 0.2 Restoration and Awakening – Tensions in the Life of Pallotti ....... 22 0.3 Diversity and Community .............................................................. 23 I The Inspiration of the Divine Calling of all People ...... 27 1 Pallotti‘s Image-Theology ........................................................... 31 1.1 The Living Image – Faith as Relationship ..................................... 33 1.2 Christ, the Perfect Image ................................................................ 45 1.3 God’s Image in the Other – Why still seek God elsewhere? ......... 51 1.4 Gratitude as Response and the Experience of one’s own Ingratitude .. 57 1.5 The Infi nite – Revealed and Permanently Beyond Reach .............. 59 1.6 From an Image-Theology to an Image-Anthropology ................... 63 2 Apostolate as a Life Journey ....................................................... 68 2.1 The Divine Vocation ...................................................................... 68 2.2 Christ – the Firstborn Brother ........................................................ 73 2.3 Christ – The Apostle of the Father ................................................. 80 2.4 Community in the Apostolate ........................................................ 81 II The Inspiration of the Holiness of all People ............... 83 1 Holiness – Gift and Task .............................................................. 85 1.1 Pallotti‘s Desire for Holiness ......................................................... 85 1.2 Sempre Più – Ever More .............................................................. 106 1.3 Being and Ethics ........................................................................... 114 2 Holiness – The Presence of God ................................................. 115 2.1 From the Shekinah to Eucharistic Presence .................................. 116 2.2 Spirituality and Ethics .................................................................. 125
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