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A NEW BOOK BY CHRISTOPHER WEST
The Truth& The Lie
What It Means to Be Human
in the Age of AI
Meet the age of AI with a clearer vision of who you are: body and soul, irreplaceable, and made for love.
Paperback · $14.95 $19.99 USD · U.S. shipping
BOOK ENDORSEMENT
“Dr. West roots us in the Truth of our embodied personhood and exposes the Lie that is threatening our humanity at its deepest foundations.”Read the full endorsement
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WHAT YOU’LL GAIN FROM READING
A clearer vision.
A more human life.
Five ways to see yourself and this changing world with fresh eyes.
Face the promise
and peril with clarity.
Weigh AI’s promise and peril through the dignity of the person. Discover how technology can serve creativity and relationships, and why efficiency alone is no measure of a flourishing life.
Recognize the lie.
Reclaim your embodied life.
You are more than your usefulness, appearance, or performance. Explore why your body, relationships, and personal story belong together, and recover a sense of wonder at yourself and the people you love.
Understand why
you are irreplaceable.
What makes a person more than a collection of abilities or information? Draw on the insights of philosophers and theologians to understand human worth, freedom, and our capacity to love.
Follow your longing
toward lasting fulfillment.
Look beneath the next distraction to the longing to be known and loved. Discover how desire can open us to God and lead us from momentary satisfaction toward lasting fulfillment.
05 · CHRIST REVEALS OUR CALLINGSee the goodness of being human
See the goodness of being human
in the light of God taking flesh.
The Incarnation illuminates the goodness of our bodies and ordinary lives. Explore how self-giving love and the promise of resurrection reshape our understanding of suffering, hope, and our eternal calling.
A book to read slowly.
A vision to bring into everyday life.
INSIDE THE BOOK
Two wings.
Reason and faith.
Six chapters move from the human experiences we share to the Christian revelation of our ultimate calling.
PART ONEWhat Reason
What Reason
Tells Us
The magnificence of humanity
I Contain Multitudes
Explore the inner life of memory, music, and story, and why a person can never be reduced to data.
The Birth of the Word “Person”
Discover why every person is indispensable, irreplaceable, and unrepeatable, and how relationships reveal who we are.
Body and Soul United
Trace today’s confusion about the body to its philosophical roots, and rediscover the unity of body and soul.
PART TWOWhat Faith
What Faith
Tells Us
The magnificence of humanity
I Contain the Capacity for God
Follow the longing for lasting happiness toward God and the love for which we are made.
The Birth of the Word-Person
Contemplate how God taking flesh illuminates our humanity and the beauty of ordinary, embodied life.
Body and Soul Reunited
Consider the promise of resurrection: a hope that takes love, suffering, and our bodies seriously.
Space to pause. Questions to carry with you.
Every chapter ends with a Quick Take and reflection questions. The closing invitation, By All Means, Dance!, celebrates creativity, beauty, and the joy of embodied life.
WHY THIS BOOK. WHY NOW.
What makes a person
irreplaceable?
What does it mean to be human?
Recover a vision worth living.
Your dignity.
Your embodied life.
Your deepest desires.
Christopher West draws on philosophy, Scripture, and St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body to explore the magnificence of being human.
As machines imitate more of what we do, what makes you irreplaceable? What does your body reveal? Where does your longing for love lead? Consider those questions with reason, faith, and renewed wonder.
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
A timely invitation
to rediscover our humanity.
“Will AI make us more human, less human, or inhuman?”
Co-host, Restore the Glory podcast
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“Will AI make us more human, less human, or inhuman? Drawing from all the major Vatican pronouncements on AI, including Pope Leo XIV’s Magnificent Humanity, and mining the wisdom of philosophers, theologians, saints, poets, journalists, movie-makers, and tech-commentators, Dr. West roots us in the Truth of our embodied personhood and exposes the Lie that is threatening our humanity at its deepest foundations.”
“It’s tempting to see the rise of AI as a threat to our humanity. Christopher West sees it as an invitation to rediscover it.”
Pints with Aquinas podcast
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“It’s tempting to see the rise of AI as a threat to our humanity. Christopher West sees it as an invitation to rediscover it. After decades spent helping his readers, students, and audiences around the world contemplate the mystery and dignity of the human person, West is uniquely equipped to guide us through this cultural moment. This book gave me a lot of hope and it will do the same for you.”
BEGIN WITH THE BOOK
Rediscover your humanity.
Bring that wonder home.
The Truth and The Lie
What It Means to Be Human in the Age of AI
by Christopher West
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