perceive fully is ourselves.60 We need other people to complete our perception of ourselves.61 Hence, perception in this context includes a unity of the subjective and objective, intrinsic and extrinsic, individual and corporate.62 Just as God’s life includes shared perspective and joint attention, so does human sense-making, by which a person develops values, concerns, and cares in order to survive and mature.63 In the state of shalom, human persons are healthily “interlocked” as this communication
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