The Apostle Paul and the Problem with Selflessness

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough,
Massachusetts. For more information,
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by Joshua Chestnut


This lecture will consider whether an ideal of selflessness is an
helpful category for Christians who rightly don't want to take
part in the pervasive selfishness of our age. We will look at
different ways of understanding the self, trying to see how
recent research into infant development, some feminist suspicion
of altruism, and the importance of not forgetting our bodies
might help us make sense of how the Apostle Paul thought about
the goodness of being a self.


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