Sources of the Christian Self

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 ?vila, John Bunyan, Jonathan Edwards, Christina Rossetti, Blaise Pascal, S ren 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