Overview
Using Charles Taylor’s magisterial Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity as a springboard, this interdisciplinary book explores lived Christian identity through the ages.
Beginning with such Old Testament figures as Abraham, Moses, and David and moving through the New Testament, the early church, the Middle Ages, and onward, the forty-two biographical chapters in Sources of the Christian Self illustrate how believers historically have defined their selfhood based on their relation to God/Jesus.
Among the many historical subjects are Justin Martyr, Origen, Augustine, Aquinas, Julian of Norwich, Dante, John Calvin, Teresa of Ávila, John Bunyan, Jonathan Edwards, Christina Rossetti, Blaise Pascal, Søren Kierkegaard, C. S. Lewis, and Flannery O’Connor—all of whom boldly lived out their Christian identities in their varied cultural contexts. In showing how Christian identity has evolved over time, Sources of the Christian Self offers deep insight into our own Christian selves today.
CONTRIBUTORS:Markus Bockmuehl
Keith Bodner
Gerald P. Boersma
Hans Boersma
Robert H. Bork
Paul C. Burns
Julie Canlis
Victor I. Ezigbo
Craig M. Gay
Yonghua Ge
Christopher Hall
Ross Hastings
Bruce Hindmarsh
James M. Houston
Sharon Jebb Smith
Robert A. Kitchen
Marian Kamell Kovalishyn
Pak-Wah Lai
Jay Langdale
Bo Karen Lee
Jonathan Sing-cheung Li
V. Phillips Long
Howard Louthan
Elizabeth Ludlow
Eleanor McCullough
Stephen Ney
Ryan S. Olson
Steve L. Porter
Iain Provan
Murray Rae
Jonathan Reimer
Ronald T. Rittgers
Sven Soderlund
Janet Martin Soskice
Mikael Tellbe
Colin Thompson
Bruce K. Waltke
Steven Watts
Robyn Wrigley-Carr
Jens Zimmermann
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