Confident Humility
Becoming Your Full Self without Becoming Full of Yourself
- Christian Living
- Publisher: Fortress Press (Augsburg Fortress)
- Published: 2019
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Publisher's Description
Almost all self-help books emerge from one of two flawed views of the self, and these mutually exclusive ditches are destructive. The Ditch of Smallness says that people are fundamentally bad and that humanity's greatest spiritual threat is pride. The Ditch of Bigness says the exact opposite: people are fundamentally good, and shame is our greatest danger. Dan Kent presents a third view, a road between the ditches. He shows how the humility Jesus revealed offers the most accurate and freeing view of the self. Whereas shame and arrogance are dysfunction steroids (making our depression darker, our anxiety tighter, our addictions stickier, and so forth), humility, as Jesus teaches it, counteracts shame and pride, thereby subverting two major psychological forces that thwart us. Once we embrace this new way of seeing ourselves--how Jesus sees us--we begin to relate to ourselves, to others, and to the world around us in a way that allows us to overcome a whole host of vices and self-sabotaging behaviors. Furthermore, whereas the ditches both lead to powerlessness and passivity, humility as Jesus teaches it is empowering, fosters proactivity, and serves as a scaffold for true confidence.
Endorsements (4)
“This is a completely new paradigm. I don't think anyone's ever seen anything quite like what Dan is getting at in this book.”
“As a 4 year professional athlete I can say without hesitation this has been the best book I have read regarding healthy, sustainable self-confidence. I have struggled with the concept of godly confidence and humility regarding identity, spirituality, work and relationships for years now, and had all but given up my quest of searching for the possibility of somehow merging the two seemingly opposing forces of confidence and humility in my day to day life when I finally found this book. I have been a fan of the author's work previous to this book's completion so when he introduced its release I was optimistic. The book exceeded expectations.”
“Early Anabaptists were considered a "Third Way" movement because they were neither Catholic nor Protestant. And today, Dan Kent has provided us with a third-way, Jesus-centred humility paradigm that resists the emptiness of the positive thinking movement and the shame of some articulations of total depravity. Thank you Dan for this helpful and hopeful book!”
“In this book, Dan Kent takes the reader on a transformative journey into the heart of humility. Filled with powerful analogies, penetrating insights, and Kingdom wisdom, Confident Humility sheds new light upon an ancient Christian virtue. Highly recommended!”
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