Sartre and theology

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Sartre and theology: An odd couple? -- Sartre and God -- Sartre and theology -- Chapter outlines -- Part 1 Sartre's theological inheritance -- 1 Vita brevis -- Childhood -- At the École Normale -- Out of obscurity -- Out of the war -- Hope Now -- 2 Sartre's theological formation: In philosophy -- Sartre's readings from youth -- Sartre's mémoire -- Philosophers and mystics -- Divided followers of Augustine -- Bérulle -- Descartes -- Jansenism -- Port-Royal -- Malebranche -- Pascal -- The Pensées -- Quietism -- Conclusion -- 3 Sartre's theological formation: In literature -- The century of Augustine -- Les moralistes -- Theatre -- Le siècle des lumières -- The theological 'return' in early twentieth-century literature -- The decade of sin -- Mauriac -- Bernanos -- Claudel -- Sartre's biographies -- Conclusion -- Part 2 Sartre's theological themes -- 4 Being and Nothingness -- Sartre's theological language -- The pessimistic Sartre: Anxiety, bad faith, being-with-others -- Anxiety -- Bad faith -- The body and the look -- Being with others -- The alienation of love -- The optimistic Sartre: Freedom -- The ambivalent Sartre? -- 5 'Existentialism Is a Humanism' -- Conclusion -- Part 3 Sartre's theological legacy -- 6 Sartre and Protestant theology: Barth and Tillich -- Sartre and Karl Barth -- Das Nichtige -- Sartre and das Nichtige -- Sartre and the other -- Sartre's and Barth's methodology -- Sartre and Tillich -- Tillich's method -- Tillich's ontology -- Tillich's hamartiology -- Sartre in Tillich -- The impossibility of identity -- The impossibility of community -- Conclusion -- 7 Sartre and Catholic theology: Marcel and Wojtyla -- Sartre and Marcel -- 'Being and Nothingness' (1943) -- 'Testimony and Existentialism'.