The contemporary sense of self can be captured in the social media term ‘curating an identity.’ For many Australians relative prosperity and peaceful living circumstances leave us free to construct a sense of self based largely on our choices - we are ‘choosing selves.’ In conversation with Dietrich Bonhoeffer this class will investigate what happens when the Choosing Self is confronted by God’s counter choice in the person and work of Jesus the Christ.

David Höhne

Rev. Dr David Höhne is the Academic Dean and a Lecturer in Christian Doctrine and Philosophy at Moore Theological College.

David holds a PhD in theology from the University of Cambridge. He is the author of the books “The Last Things” (IVP, 2019) and “Spirit and Sonship: Colin Gunton’s Theology of Particularity and the Holy Spirit” (Ashgate, 2010), and scholarly book chapters on Jürgen Moltman, John Calvin, the Holy Spirit, and the Reformation and Romanticism. His research interests include the Trinity and gender, the Holy Spirit, the atonement theology of Karl Barth, and the legacy of Romanticism in modern culture. David has served in Anglican churches in Sydney, Canberra, and the UK.

David will lead a masterclass on “Jesus Christ and the Choosing Self”.