DESCRIPTION
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 |