This volume brings psychological theories of moral and religious transformation into conversation with theologies of Christian formation. It also examines the implications of these psychologies and theologies for the contemporary church.

"Against those who view self-becoming in terms of self-actualization, Romney Moseley argues that it is just the opposite: We become a self by voluntarily and intentionally undergoing the same self-emptying that God undergoes in the cross of Christ. He builds this argument through deftly written chapters on William James, faith development theory, Jung, and Kierkegaard, using the metaphor of self-becoming as a unifying thread and basis for critique of positions that fall short of the deep and paradoxical insights that resonate within the Christian image of the kenotic self. He reveals his intimate, insider's knowledge of fa faith development theory both through his analysis of its strengths and liabilities, and through his search for ways to speak of Christian self-becoming in a manner that is ethically as well as theologically responsible. The best book on this subject since Walter Conn's Christian Conversion."

-Donald Capps William Harte Felmeth Professor of Pastoral Theology Princeton Theological Seminary