The Vertical Self: How Biblical Faith Can Help Us Discover Who We Are in an Age of Self-Obsession
Mark Sayers
Thomas Nelson, 2010, 244 pp., $14.99
Mark Sayers talks about everyone’s favorite topic in The Vertical Self: you. If anything will mark the lives of the emerging generations, it will be the pandemic of identity crises. Who am I? Really? This confusion is planted and perpetuated by the barrage of images, the media mayhem that fills every second of every day. Even our faith and worship cannot escape the negative influence of the horizontal life. Images and identity: These are the categories Sayers addresses with timeless biblical truth. He invites readers to re-imagine their identities on the vertical axis. Sayers imagines a future where you and I live whole and holy because our identity is made in the image of God.
