Divine Address and Human Response: A Theology of the Person

Victor A. Shepherd

What does it truly mean to be human? In Divine Address and Human Response: A Theology of the Person, Victor A. Shepherd explores one of the most urgent questions facing the church and contemporary culture. Drawing deeply from Scripture, theology, philosophy, psychology, history, and pastoral experience, Shepherd argues that human identity is grounded not in autonomy, reason, or social achievement, but in God’s living address to us as persons created in his image. With wisdom, compassion, and intellectual rigor, he examines personhood, freedom, community, sexuality, suffering, mental illness, sin, death, and hope, showing how Jesus Christ reveals both the truth of our humanity and God’s purpose for our restoration. Profoundly biblical and engagingly accessible, this book offers a compelling vision of the human person as one known, loved, and called by God.

Victor Shepherd is Professor Emeritus of Theology at Tyndale University; Professor Ordinarius at The Graduate Theological Foundation, University of Oxford; Adjunct Professor of Theology, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto. A minister of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, he has served five congregations in New Brunswick and Ontario. He is married to Maureen McGuigan. They have two children and five grandchildren.

Paperback; 15x23 cm; 398 pages; 0.555 kg

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