Agency, Culture, and Human Personhood: Pastoral Thelogy and Intimate Partner Violence

Description: Agency, Culture and Human Personhood"" uses feminist theories, process and liberation theologies, psychodynamics and the problem of intimate partner violence to develop a pastoral theology of human agency. The turn to cultural context for understanding what makes human beings who they are and do the things they do, raises significant questions about human agency. To what extent is agency, the human capacity to act, self-determined, and to what extent is it determined by externa...