God, Freedom, and Human Dignity: Embracing a God-centered Identity in a Me-centered Culture

God, Freedom, and Human Dignity: Embracing a God-centered Identity in a Me-centered Culture

Ron Highfield

Description

Ron Highfield traces out the development of Western thought that has led us our current frame of mind from Plato, Augustine and Descartes through Locke, Kant, Blake Bentham, Hegel, Nietzsche--all the way down to Charles Taylor's landmark work Sources of the Self. At the heart of the issue is the modern notion of the autonomous self and the inevitable crisis it provokes for a view of human identity, freedom and dignity found in God. Highfield makes pertinent use of trinitarian theology to show how genuine Christian faith responds to this challenge by directing us to a God who is not in competition with his human creations, but rather who provides us with what we seek but could never give ourselves. --from publisher description.

ISBN

9780830827114, 0830827110

Publication Date

2013

Publisher

IVP Academic

City

Downers Grove

Keywords

Identity, Self, Philosophy, Christianity

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities

God, Freedom, and Human Dignity: Embracing a God-centered Identity in a Me-centered Culture

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