
“Part of our unease with the phrase stems from being raised in a culture that treats autonomy as sacred. We idolize rebels, free thinkers, and mavericks. Our modern myths are stories of rejecting traditional expectations to discover your true, pure identity. As we have seen, in the contemporary anthropology, to be fully human is to be autonomous.”
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You Are Not Your Own: Belonging to God in an Inhuman World
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