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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...
Thus we understand that relationality is at the heart of the Trinity. Human beings reflect this relationality. Just as God exists in relationship, humans are to exist in relationship: “To be human is to be created in and for relationship with divine and human others” (Gunton, 1993, p. 222). This concept is broadly represented in the New Testament. All believers are called by God to be a part of a relational community, placed in the body of Christ by the Spirit (1 Cor 12:13). In reminding us that
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