The Human Being as Relational

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Pages:: 48–65

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004741799_004

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This chapter focuses on the relationships into which we enter, that form us as we form them, and through the help of which we understand humanity. The chapter offers a critique of the modern concept of autonomy that would count with the human being as thinkable without relationships. It also emphasises the value of freedom without which human relationships squeeze life from the other and bring death. It shows that although human beings are born into relationships in which they experience their dependence on others and on society as a whole, they are also born to freedom and to being able to live their lives in relationships and to act in solidarity. In this way relationships can become an open window to God.

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Who Is the Human Being? An Ecumenical Approach to Theological Anthropology

Series: Studies in Theology and Religion, Volume: 36

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004741799

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 06 Nov 2025

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Part 1 We Are Born into a Life that Was Here Before Us

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