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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...

To think of body without the engagement and the exchange of intelligent subjects, without the imaginative projection of self into the other, is not possible. Our knowing, in other words, is not only bodily, it’s also cooperative and imaginative. Going back to the ‘lighthouse in the brain’ model, the problem with this is not only that it is dangerously on the way to being disembodied, it is also highly individualized. And if we want to redress the balance in certain ways of thinking how we know, and
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