Theology, Psychology and the Plural Self, Turner 9781032179933 Free Shipping..

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Is the human self singular and unified or essentially plural? This book explores the seemingly disparate ways that Christian theology and the secular human sciences have approached this complex question.\nThrough an original analysis of recent theological and secular accounts of self and personhood, this book examines the extent of the intertheor > Is the human self singular and unified or essentially plural? This book explores the seemingly disparate ways that Christian theology and the secular human sciences have approached this complex question. The latter have largely embraced the idea of the plural self as an inescapable, even adaptive feature of psychological life. Contemporary Christian theology, by contrast, has largely neglected recent psychological accounts of the naturalness of self-plurality, and has sought to reaffirm the self's unity in opposition to those postmodern theorists who would dismantle it.\nThrough an original analysis of recent theological and secular a.