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This volume offers a robust theological investigation of the concept of the person. Philip Rolnick calls us to think about personhood not just psychologically—understanding it as a set of traits or behaviors or as a level of social adroitness—but theologically. He believes that person represents our highest understanding of our lives with regard to each other, the world, and God. Some...

How to understand the meaning of person has critically shaped Christian thought and fundamentally differentiated Eastern and Western religion. At a salient moment in the Hebrew Bible,Moses stands before “a flame of fire out of a bush” and is confronted with a revelation of God—a personal revelation. When Moses reverently asks the name of the Deity who addresses him and assigns him the task of liberating the Hebrews, he is told: “I AM WHO I AM” (Exod.
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