A Christian Account of Humility
A Christian Account of Humility
This chapter explains and offers an initial defense of a Christian conception of humility that is biblically grounded, theologically informed, and philosophically sound. It interacts with the views of several philosophers and theologians, past and present, who have offered a variety of accounts of the virtue of humility. While it does not engage in a comprehensive overview of every account of humility that is on offer, it references and discusses other views, in order to clarify the account it describes. The account developed in this chapter is Christological, insofar as it is grounded in the gospel accounts of the life of Christ and other portions of the New Testament—especially Philippians 2:1–11—that are relevant to understanding humility as it is exemplified by Jesus in these texts.
Keywords: humility, Christology, New Testament, Gospels, Jesus Christ, Philippians
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