Person, Grace, and God

Name: Person, Grace, and God
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ISBN: 9780802840431

ISBN-10: 0802840434

ISBN-13: 9780802840431

Edition: 2007

Authors: Philip A. Rolnick

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This volume offers a robust theological investigation of the concept of the person. Philip Rolnick calls us to think about personhood not just psychologically ? understanding it as a set of traits or behaviors or as a level of social adroitness ? but theologically. He believes that person represents our highest understanding of our lives with regard to each other, the world, and God. Some understanding of person underlies virtually every significant Christian doctrine and points to what is most at stake in it. A philosophically astute, historically informed, scientifically minded theologian, Rolnick here highlights the centrality of person for Christian thought by tracing its development…

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List price: $29.50
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Publication date: 8/13/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.64" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English




Introduction and etymological and historical development of the concept of the person



Person : etymological and historical development



Challenges to the concept of the person


The challenge from biology



Darwin's problems, neo-Darwinian solutions, and Jesus' love commands


Postmodern challenges



Polemical deconstructions



Questioning the hegemony of the critical stance



Gift : summoned, interrogated, enjoyed



Persons : divine and human



Trinitarian simplicity : the unification of nature and grace



The human person