Nnadiebube Journal of Religion, Culture and Society

Through his death and resurrection, Jesus Christ reconciled each human being and the whole of humanity to God. Death and resurrection are not simply events in the life of Jesus Christ. They represent a deep and unified psychological principle of human development. This principle is the common thread that runs through most developmental theories, whose trajectories depict an expected movement away from self-preoccupation to othercenteredness as a condition for development to proceed to full maturity. It is through dying to egoic narcissism that the individual grows into a full and mature adult capable of engaging other mature adults in civic responsibility. This work employs theories of human development by Erik Erikson and Lawrence Kohlberg to drive home this all important message. This idea is further backed by the concept of self-transcendence as the philosophical and theological grounding of human development.

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