Agape and Personhood

Goicoechea shows how the three traits of personhood--that all persons are equal in dignity, that each is unique, and that all persons are interpersonal--are rooted in that love which is Agape. This love between the three persons of the One God is examined existentially through three lenses, the author's mother who lived it out in her love and personal growth, philosophically with Kierkegaard as he explains the logic of reconciling love, and in Paul's seven authentic letters. The history of how humans became seen as persons and how the idea of personhood developed in the West is then examined through nine moments of history.