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Book

You are not your own : belonging to God in an inhuman world

Call Number

  • 248.4 N747 (OSH)

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Publication Information

Downers Grove, IL : InterVarsity Press, [2021]

Physical Description

219 pages ; 23 cm

Summary

"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"--

Contents

  • 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.

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