Your text presents the idea of an interactive relationship between nature and nurture in our development. It also proposes that our identities are both stable and yet always changing.
- What factors have led to your own identity formation? Has your personality remained stable or have you experienced change?
- Give examples from your own life or from what you have witnessed in someone else’s life of what would either limit or encourage personal change.
- What does scripture say about identity?
- How does a view that encompasses both nature and nurture and also stability and change inform our theology about topics such a free-will, grace, and redemption?