The Humanity of Christ and the Healing of the Dysfunction of the Human Spirit - Softcover

Alexander, Donald L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1498206670 ISBN 13: 9781498206679

Publisher: Wipf and Stock, 2015

Synopsis

The book represents a personal quest in what Anselm referred to as faith seeking understanding. The primary focus centers on proposing an interpretation of the nature and function of the human spirit and its relationship to the divine spirit and the living of a godly Christian life. Thus the book has a dual concern; namely, an academic one and a spiritual one. The undergirding premise is that apart of the human spirit the divine spirit is personally unknowable. This premise contains the following supporting concepts: First, the core of human personhood resides in the human spirit and constitutes the unique capacity for personal self-relatedness. Second, as the result of humanity's idolatrous displacement of God, a radical reversal occurred with the human spirit. When restored to its original relationship with the divine spirit, the human spirit, as James Loder writes "is called out of its futility and perversity into the light (and truth) of the divine spirit.

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About the Author

Donald Alexander (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara) is emeritus professor of Biblical Studies at Bethel University, St. Paul, MN. He served for ten years as a missionary at the Alliance Bible Seminary, Hong Kong, China. He is the author of The Pursuit of Godliness: Sanctification in Christological Perspectiv

Edition details

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1498206670
• ISBN 13: 9781498206679
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150