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Transcendent Selfhood: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Inner Life . By Louis Dupré. New York: Seabury Press, 1976. x + 118 pages. $8.95.

Wogaman professedly bases his system on the following Christian value presumptions: the goodness of created existence, individuality, unity, and equality—together with human finitude and sinfulness. The Christian message both reveals and confirms, at least to Christians, these penultimate conditions or obstacles to ultimate human destiny. More tentatively, it applies them in concrete social ethics. Christian faith itself is essentially moral because it is essentially relational. With an ecumenical attitude towards Roman Catholics and Protestants and an empathetic view toward moral perfectionism and immoral compromise, Wogaman explicates the traditional and realistic mediating principle that many norms, while not absolutes, are presumptions, exceptions to which bear the burden of proof, e.g., "innocent until proved guilty beyond reasonable doubt." His highly compact and often abstract volume can provide imaginative teachers with a structure for many concrete moral discussions, especially because the author himself is generous with further illustrative presumptions about the less-gifted, self-interest, war, democratic socialism, discrimination and freedom, reward systems, etc. Implicitly he invites comparison of these "Christian" presumptions with those of other religions and world views.