God, freedom, and human dignity : embracing a God-centered identity in a me-centered culture /

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 th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Highfield, Ron, 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Downers Grove, IL : IVP Academic, 2013.
Temas:
Identity (Psychology) > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Self (Philosophy)
Self.
Ego
Moi (Philosophie)
Moi (Psychologie)
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Anthropology.
Identity (Psychology) > Religious aspects > Christianity
Self
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1: The me-centered self. How the me-centered world was born
  • Defiance : the Promethean dimension of the modern self
  • Subservience : the religion of idols, hypocrites and hirelings
  • Indifference : a study in thoughtlessness
  • The God of the modern self
  • The secret aspirations of the modern self
  • Some unwelcome limits on freedom and dignity
  • Part 2: The God-centered self. The self-giving God of the Gospel
  • The irony of divine "weakness"
  • The awakening presence
  • A new way of being human being
  • The divine adoption
  • The emergence of God-centered identity
  • The freedom of the children of God
  • God's love as the ground and measure of human dignity
  • The reconciliation of heaven and earth.

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