Author: The Rev'd Dr Brian Rosner

In How to Find Yourself: Why Looking Inward Is Not the Answer Brian Rosner, prompted by his own crisis of identity, critiques society’s approach to identity formation—primarily looking inward and expressive individualism—as ultimately unsatisfying. The book was written with two convictions: many people find personal identity to be a subject that is confusing and confronting; and the gospel story offers a better way to find and be yourself than the one currently offered by modern society. Though acknowledging that looking inward can be helpful to a point, How to Find Yourself challenges the status quo of identity formation by arguing that true self-knowledge is also found through looking around to one’s relationships, backward and forward to one’s life story, and, most importantly, upward to God to find lasting security and joy in being intimately known by him.