This slim book provides a succinct, sophisticated, insightful, and interesting account of key elements in Christian anthropology, contrasting these with four pervasive assumptions in contemporary culture: rationality, freedom, equality, and conquest.

The Heythrop Journal

Paul O'Callaghan is one of the most insightful theologians of our time. With his characteristically modest style coupled with his extraordinary erudition, O'Callaghan delivers a sophisticated and nuanced portrait of the ennobling impact of Christian faith upon rationality, freedom, equality, and achievement. Never polemical, O'Callaghan shows us how the incarnate Logos, far from being outdated or posing some kind of threat, provides the deepest ground of all that we moderns--whether 'conservative' or 'liberal'--hold most dear. A wise book for a world in need of wisdom!

Matthew Levering, Mundelein Seminary