Wholeness: The Character Logic of Christian Belief

The notion of a person is in deep philosophical trouble. And this has posed a deepening crisis for believers: Christian beliefs are, after all, irreducibly about persons. In response to this situation, Prust proposes a new way to reason about persons, one based on identifying persons as characters of action. Employing a phenomenology of action he calls character logic, he develops a powerful new tool for thinking through some of the intractable dilemmas that have long befuddled belief: * Can we avoid being arbitrary and parochial in claiming that God is the only source of moral value? * Can we reconcile natural evil in the world with God’s absolute power? * Can we continue to honor the historicity of faith-based claims in the face of critical history? * Can our personal life be eternal when neither timeless nor everlasting life is conceivable? * Can we accept our personal mortality and still affirm our destiny as eternal? Wholeness: The Character Logic of Christian Belief argues that character logic shows us a reasonable way to think about persons, one that puts theology on a new footing and gives affirmative answers to all these questions!