You are Your own, and you belong to yourself.
Contrasting these two visions of life, he invites us past the sickness of contemporary life into a better understanding of who we are and to whom we belong..
In You Are Not Your Own , Alan Noble explores how this simple truth reframes the way we understand ourselves, our families, our society, and God.
As the Heidelberg Catechism puts it, I am not my own, but belong with body and soul, both in life and in death, to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ.
But the Christian gospel offers a strikingly different vision.
This phenomenon is mapped out onto the very structures of our society, and helps explain our society\'s underlying disorder.
But while that may sound empowering, it turns out to be a crushing responsibility--one that never actually delivers on its promise of a free and fulfilled life, but instead leaves us burned out, depressed, anxious, and alone.
And if we are our own, then it\'s up to us to forge our own identities and to make our lives significant.
This is the fundamental assumption of modern life.
You are Your own, and you belong to yourself
