must also be a community. If the struggle for Christianity is the struggle for the nature of human selfhood, then it is worth noting that Hegel’s basic insight, so compellingly elaborated by Taylor, that selves are socially constructed and only come to full self-consciousness in dialogue with other self-consciousnesses, is of great importance. Each of us is, in a sense, the sum total of the network of relationships we have with others and with our environment.
