Know Thyself: Part 1 – How we form our identity

Be true to yourself. Follow your heart. Write your own story.

Issues of identity are of overwhelming importance to us. But there are a lot of questions we struggle to answer.

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Be true to yourself. Follow your heart. Write your own story.

Issues of identity are of overwhelming importance to us. But there are a lot of questions we struggle to answer.

Be true to yourself. Follow your heart. Write your own story.

Issues of identity are of overwhelming importance to us. But there are a lot of questions we struggle to answer, like: Do we really know ourselves that well? Is it possible to have a story on your own? What happens when personal upheavals rob us of our sense of self? How can our desire to be known be fulfilled?

Brian Rosner is Principal of Ridley College, Melbourne. In this interview he draws on his most recent book, Known by God: A Biblical Theology of Personal Identity – as well as his own experience of terrible loss and recovery.