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The Reciprocating Self: Human Development in Theological Perspective is unavailable, but you can change that!

On the basis of a theologically grounded understanding of the nature of persons and the self, Jack O. Balswick, Pamela Ebstyne King and Kevin S. Reimer present a model of human development that ranges across all of life’s stages: infancy, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood, elder adulthood. They do this by drawing on a biblical model of relationality, where the created goal...

account for brain capacities and distinctiveness. Soul and mind are understood as physiologically embodied. This model is nonreductive in the sense that human behavior cannot be exhaustively explained by analysis at the lowest level (bottom-up explanations). Rather, higher level (top-down) explanations supervene statements about the physiological. In this monist model, nature, body, soul, mind, spirit or any other description all refer to the same entity. An important element in the nonreductive
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