Abstract
This thesis explores the concept of authenticity and argues that authentic selfhood is a theological imperative. This research shows the importance of a narrative understanding of identity formation, and an understanding of the human person as created in the imago Dei and engaged in “becoming” through the actualising of potentiality. This understanding provides a necessary foundation to a theological understanding of authentic selfhood, and the call for human possibility to be understood through engagement in self-giving love. This foundation leads to the definition of authentic selfhood as “[the] bringing of one’s unique, God-inspired self to life,” and to the need to understand the call to self-giving love as a giving of one’s authentic self. The definition of authentic selfhood provides an avenue for the church to engage missiologically with younger Australian adults, and challenges conventional Christian understandings of identity, selfhood, and morality.
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