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What is consciousness? Is the mind a machine? What makes us persons? How can we find the path to human maturity? These are among the fundamental questions that Rowan Williams helps us to think about in this deeply engaging exploration of what it means to be human. The book ends with a brief but profound meditation on the person of Christ, inviting us to consider how, through him, “our humanity...

make sense, or whatever. I as author imagine my readers. I imagine what makes sense; but much more than that, much more basically than that, to have a sense of any object (including my own body) is to presuppose a number of points of view. I construct a ‘synoptic’, a ‘walking around’ picture, of an object, a person, something that I encounter, by imagining other points of view. But I can’t even imagine my own body as a unit without imagining another point of view. To think of myself as a body, to
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