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Book SynopsisPart I Historical Overview of the Notions of Person and Logos.- Chapter 1 On the Notion of Person and its Development in Light of the Concept of Logos.- Part II The Notion of Logos.- Chapter 2 Logos in Ancient Greek: A Philological Inquiry.- Part III The Notion of Logos - The Philosophical and Biblical Context of the Notion of Logos.- Chapter 3 Sophist or Philosopher? Manipulation of Logos in Gorgias' On Non-Existence and Encomium of Helen.- Chapter 4 Job, and the adam: the Hermeneutics of Job's Interpretations of the Primeval History.- Chapter 5 Logos in the Prologue of John: A Philological Inquiry.- Chapter 6 In the Beginning Was Discourse: Erasmus' Translation, Academic Controversy, and Popular Reaction.- Part IV The Notion of Logos - Breaking off the Logos of Reality.- Chapter 7 The Cosmological Argument: Leibniz's Unlimited, and Kant's Limited, Rationality.- Chapter 8 The Loss of Reason: The Radical Philosophes' Attack against Rational Religion and Kierkegaard's Religious Anti-Rationalism.- Part V The Notion of Logos - An Attempt to Restore Unity Based on the Theory of Language.- Chapter 9 Charles Taylor on Constitutive Theory of Language and Self-Interpreting Animals.- Part VI Understanding the Person - The Notion of Person at the Root of Three Traditions.- Chapter 10 The Prosopological Reading of the Term p??s?p?? persona in the Works of Origen and Tertullian.- Chapter 11 Soma and Gufa: Rabbinic Perception of a Person.- Chapter 12 The Apparition of the Concept of Person in the Beginning of Arabic Theology.- Part VII Understanding the Person - Metaphysical Approaches.- Chapter 13 Individual, Self-Mastery, and the Common Good: Person as a Rational Subsistent in Aquinas.- Chapter 14 Sui Dominium, the Metaphysical Act Constitutive of the Person. An Aristotelian-Thomist Metaphysics Update.- Part VIII Understanding the Person - The Personalist Perspective.- Chapter 15 Person and Rationality.- Chapter 16 The Person in Personalism.
