The Theological Imperative to Authenticity

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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	Methodology and Overview
1 What Is Authenticity?
	The Difficulty of Definition
	A Brief History
	Authenticity in Popular Writing
	Authenticity in Philosophy
	Authenticity in Theology
2 Human Becoming and the Image of God
	The Concept of Freedom
		“Ambiguous” Human Freedom for Inhumanity
	Human “Becoming”
	Human “Becoming” and “Potentiality”
	“Being” and “Letting-Be”
	The Image of God
		The imago Dei and Creation
		Sin and the imago Dei
	Sin and Original Righteousness
	The imago Dei and Salvation
3 Identity and the “True Self”
	True Self?
		What Is the “True” Self?
		“True” Self as Universal and Particular
		True Selves
	Taylor and Modern Understandings of Identity
		Identity and Commitment
		Identity and Community
	Self-Shaping
4 Identity as Formed in Narrative
	Narrative Intelligibility
	Narrative Continuity
	Narration
	Sociocultural Identity Formation
	The Importance of Telos
5 The Social Human
	Culture and Uniqueness in Relational Humanity
	A Self That Is Unique
	The Trinity and Human Sociality
	Embodiedness and Sociality
	The Body and Self-Expression
	The “I-Thou” Relationships and Ethics
6 Authenticity: A Definition
	The Journey to a Definition
		The First Definition
		The Second Definition
		The Third Definition
		The Fourth Definition
			Authenticity Is to Bring the Fullness of One’s Unique, God-Inspired Self to Life
	The Unique God-Inspired Self
	To Life
7 Authenticity: The Definition Tested
	The “True Torturer”
	Radical Individualism and the Social Human
	The Expression of Desire and an Orientation to the Good
	Authenticity as Ethic and Moral Relativism
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index