The call to personhood : a Christian theory of the individual in social relationships
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Bibliographic Information
The call to personhood : a Christian theory of the individual in social relationships
Cambridge University Press, 1990
- pbk.
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  Shimane
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  Hiroshima
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  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
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  Okinawa
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Note
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-311) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book is an attempt to answer the question 'What is a person?'. Although the answer is given in largely theoretical terms, the author is concerned primarily with practice: what does it mean to live as a human person in community with others? What personal, social, and political practices are required by personal being? The central insight, that human identity is most productively understood in communicational terms, leads to an account of personhood which is both compassionate and which - at the same time - keeps sight of the particularity of each individual.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Persons in Relation to God: 1. The creation of individuality in God's image: Trinity, persons, gender and dialogue
- 2. The re-creation of individuality: the call of Christ
- Part II. Social Relations: 3. The social formation of persons
- Part III. Interpersonal Relations: 4. The redemptive transformation of relations: dialogue
- 5. Pesonal integrity: centredness and orientation on others
- 6. Ethical resistance: testing the validity of disagreements
- Part IV. Political Relations: 7. Theology, church, and politics
- 8. Political community
- 9. Institutions
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Index.
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