Crabb would not disagree with what I’ve said, but the exalted place of other people in the process of connecting communicates that our need for people and our need for God are somehow on a par. Again, I believe this is directly attributable to Crabb’s anthropology. Consider this statement: “At the exact center of the human personality is a capacity or possibility that defines what it means to be alive as a human being” (p. 35). This may sound seductively true, but it isn’t. The center of what it
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