240 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
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Is the human self singular and unified or essentially plural? This book explores the seemingly disparate ways that Christian theology and the secular human sciences have approached this complex question. The latter have largely embraced the idea of the plural self as an inescapable, even adaptive feature of psychological life. Contemporary Christian theology, by contrast, has largely neglected... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 The Crisis of Identity: Diagnosing and Healing the Fragmented Self; Chapter 2 The Destabilisation of Identity in Contemporary Social Thought; Chapter 3 The Problem of the Self and its Representation; Chapter 4 Experiential Multiplicity, Narrative Identity and Pathologies of Self; Chapter 5 The Unity of the Person and the Doctrine of Imago Dei; Chapter 6 Pannenberg and McFadyen in Dialogue with Psychology; conclusion Conclusion: Reconfiguring Theology’s Dialogue with Psychology;
Biography
Léon Turner is a Research Associate at the Psychology and Religion Research Group, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK.
’This, the latest publication in the Ashgate Science and Religion Series, is an original and stimulating interdisciplinary study of personhood that deals with issues around self-multiplicity head on, rather than relegating them to the periphery. Renowned for its cross-discipline debates on a number of contemporary issues under the editorship of Roger Trigg and J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, the series here offers an interesting interface between theology and the human sciences on the topic of the plural self.’ Heythrop Journal
