The Meaning of Persons

by Paul Tournier

Paper Book, 1973

Status

Available

Call number

IBMC Library - BF 698 T687m

Publication

New York : Perennial Library

ISBN

9780060803049

Description

Among the tributes to The Meaning of Persons were those in Theology ('Rich in experience . . . most helpful and stimulating'); in The Social Service Quarterly (`Sincerity, honesty and experience . . . the reviewing of this book has led to my having a spiritual experiehce'); and in Mental Health (`Of rare quality . . . his humility, charity and wisdom'). 'It is a book which a man should read, not only because it is of absorbing interest', said the Expository Times, and Dr Max Warren reviewed it as 'a brilliant study on how to help our contemporaries meet Christ'.

Local notes

CONTENTS:
Part one: The personage
Who am I?
This impersonal word
This contradictory being
Part two: Life
Utopia
The example of biology
Psychology and spirit
Part three: The person
The dialogue
The obstacle
The living God
Part four: Commitment
The world of things and the world of persons
To live is to choose
New life.
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