The value of your life

"Many years ago Harnack said that Jesus had been a

genius because of his penetrating ideas about the

human person. I believe that was not the only reason

he was a genius. You might ask: What are your ideas

about the human person? About yourself? About

others?

The importance and meaning of others has a direct

and profound connection with people's attitude

toward the world, life, their possessions and mainly,

the idea they have of themselves.

This book attempts to reflect anthropologically

using the Bible as a basis. My intention is to offer a

descriptive anthropology of values and meanings that

is concrete, dynamic, historical, personal, and practical;

an anthropology that helps present-day people to

value their life and that of others. For this reason, the

book avoids abstract, timeless, generic reflections on

the presence of human beings in the past."

Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
1. Human existence
- Introduction
- Humanity Today, Seen in the Light of its Origin
- Vocation and Destiny
- Human Activity and Earthly Work
- Constitution of the Human Person
- Meaning of Human Sexuality
2. Meaningful Moments of Human Life
- Fecundation
- Gestation
- Birth
- Development
- Infancy
- Education and Risk
- Adolescence
- Young Adulthood
- Human Maturity
- Complementarity
- Parenthood
- Human Suffering
- People Grow Old
- Death, Fullness of Life
- Human Transcendence
- Resurrection
3. Humanityin the World
- Humanity as Lord and Master
- The Things of Nature
- The World, Object of Knowledge
- Humanity of the World
4. The Human Personas Project
- The Human Person as Project
- The Human Person Pre-seen (Pre-vision)
- The Human Person Pre-loved (Pre-dilection)
- The Human Person Pre-chosen (Pre-election)
- God's Care for the Human Person (Pro-vidence)
5. The Human Person Divided
- The Human Person against Himself
- Sin against the Human Person
- The Thoughts of the Heart
- The Human Person as Sin
- The Human Person against Others
- Conversion, Reconciliation, Regeneration
- Eternal Frustration
- Eternal Fulfillment
6. The Integrated Person
- The Unique and Irreplaceable Human Person
- What is Human about the Human Person
- People and the Life of Christ in Them
7. People for Others
- People and the Encounter with God
- Service and the Encounter with Jesus in People
- Christ's Demands on Others
Bibliography

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