Alistair I. McFadyen

The Call to Personhood

A Christian Theory of the Individual in Social Relationships

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780521409292
• ISBN-10: 0521409292
• Artikelnr.: 21618107

Inhaltsangabe

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.