Alistair McFadyen's Books

The Call to Personhood

A Christian Theory of the Individual in Social Relationships

By: Alistair I. McFadyen

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The Call to Personhood

A Christian Theory of the Individual in Social Relationships

By: Alistair I. McFadyen

This book is an attempt to answer the question 'What is a person?'. Although the answer is given in largely theoretical terms, the author is concerned primarily with practice: what does it mean to live as a human person in community with others? What personal, social, and political practices are required by personal being? The central insight, that human identity is most productively understood in communicational terms, leads to an account of personhood which is both compassionate and which - at the same time - keeps sight of the particularity of each individual.

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344

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Cambridge University Press

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ISBN 10

0521409292

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9780521409292

Bound to Sin

Abuse, Holocaust and the Christian Doctrine of Sin

By: Alistair McFadyen

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Bound to Sin

Abuse, Holocaust and the Christian Doctrine of Sin

By: Alistair McFadyen

This book tests the explanatory and descriptive power of the doctrine of sin in relation to two concrete situations: sexual abuse of children and the holocaust. Taking seriously the explanatory power of secular discourses for analysing and regulating therapeutic action in relation to such situations, the book asks whether the theological language of sin can offer further illumination by speaking of God and the world together. Through its discussion of abuse and the holocaust, an engagement with Augustine, original sin and feminism, a fresh and sometimes surprising perspective is offered, both on the theology of sin and on the pathologies under consideration. The understanding of sin that emerges is centred on joyful worship of the trinitarian God. This essay is more systematic and more theological than most practical, pastoral or applied theology and more practical and concrete than most systematic or constructive theology. It is a genuinely concrete, systematic theology.

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