You are not your own : belonging to God in an inhuman world / Alan Noble.
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TextPublisher: Downers Grove, IL : InterVarsity Press, [2021]Description: x, 219 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780830847822
- 0830847820
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Gospel Coalition Book Awards Honorable Mention
"You are your own, and you belong to yourself."
This is the fundamental assumption of modern life. And if we are our own, then it's up to us to forge our own identities and to make our lives significant. But while that may sound empowering, it turns out to be a crushing responsibility--one that never actually delivers on its promise of a free and fulfilled life, but instead leaves us burned out, depressed, anxious, and alone. This phenomenon is mapped out onto the very structures of our society, and helps explain our society's underlying disorder.
But the Christian gospel offers a strikingly different vision. As the Heidelberg Catechism puts it, "I am not my own, but belong with body and soul, both in life and in death, to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ." In You Are Not Your Own , Alan Noble explores how this simple truth reframes the way we understand ourselves, our families, our society, and God. Contrasting these two visions of life, he invites us past the sickness of contemporary life into a better understanding of who we are and to whom we belong.
Includes bibliographical references.
"Modern life tells us that it's up to us to forge our own identities and to make our lives significant. But the Christian gospel offers a strikingly different vision-one that reframes the way we understand ourselves, our families, our society, and God. Contrasting these two visions of life, Alan Noble invites us into a better understanding of who we are and to whom we belong"-- Provided by publisher.
Introduction: an inhuman culture -- 1. I am my own and I belong to myself -- 2. How society helps you be your own -- 3. How society fails us -- 4. We all self-medicate -- 5. You are not your own but belong to Christ -- 6. What can we do? -- 7. Our only comfort.