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The call to personhood : a Christian theory of the individual in social relationships / Alistair I. McFadyen.
Van Pelt Library BV4597.52 .M4 1990
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McFadyen, Alistair I.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Interpersonal relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Christianity--Psychology.
- Christianity.
- Theological anthropology--Christianity.
- Theological anthropology.
- Christian sociology.
- Church and social problems.
- Self-actualization (Psychology)--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Self-actualization (Psychology).
- Physical Description:
- xii, 327 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
- Summary:
- "What is a person?" Although the answer is given in largely theoretical terms, the primary concern of this book is to identify the personal, social and political practices required to live as a human in community with others. Christian trinitarian theology is accordingly interwoven with contemporary social thought to provide an account of individuality and of the various dimensions of personal existence (the psychological, the interpersonal, the material, the institutional, the political, the spiritual) in terms of communication. The basic theme of this book is that we become the people we are as our identities are shaped through the patterns of relation, communication and exchange that surround and incorporate us.
- Contents:
- Part I Persons in relation to God 15
- 1 The creation of individuality in God's image: Trinity, persons, gender and dialogue 17
- 2 The re-creation of individuality: the call of Christ 45
- Part II Social relations 67
- 3 The social formation of persons 69
- Part III Interpersonal relations 111
- 4 The redemptive transformation of relations: dialogue 113
- 5 Personal integrity: centredness and orientation on others 151
- 6 Ethical resistance: testing the validity of disagreements 162
- Part IV Political relations 191
- 7 Theology, Church and politics 193
- 8 Political community 206
- 9 Institutions 231.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-311) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521384710
- OCLC:
- 21152126
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