satiation, spiritual, xii–xiii. See also rest, searching for
Saward, John, 183
Sayers, Dorothy, 19–20, 22
Schmemann, Alexander, 22
self, the, 31–32, 109–12
self-examination, 87
self-righteousness, 55–56
serpent, the, 6, 51, 98, 138
service, 63–64, 87–88, 128–30
Seven Storey Mountain, The (Merton), xix
sin
beauty and, 98–99
community and, 138–39
goodness and, 64–69, 74–76
truth and, 20–25, 39–41
Sinclair, Upton, 80
singing, Scripture and, 42
Smith, Christian, 4
Smith, James K. A., 36
sola scriptura, 122
stillness, 92–94. See also contemplation
suffering, 29n13, 77–81
Sullivan, Shirley Darcus, 125
Swift, Taylor, 135
Talladega Nights, 179–80
Taylor, Charles, 100
Teresa of Ávila, xx, 121–30, 183
tests, personality, 66nn10–11
theosis, 100, 116, 118, 125
Thérèse of Lisieux, 183
Thomas Aquinas, 67, 74, 95, 101
Thompson, Gregory, 105
time, 131–32, 155–61
tradition, xv–xvii, 155–61
Transcendent, the, xvii–xviii, xxi
transcendentals. See beauty; community; goodness; truth
true self, the, 66–67, 116
trust, 28–29, 36, 136–37
truth
goodness and, 47–49
