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I have argued, together with Gamwell and other "process" thinkers, that Christian faith necessarily implies an understanding of the individualinindividual-in-community, distinct from-not from—not to say, contrary to-radically to—radically individualistic understandings, whether liberal or conservative.

This understanding can be supported philosophically by observing that if the world is a community of individuals-of individuals—of many different types and at many different levels-it is equally true that individuals are possible only in commwl.ities-againcommunities—again, of many different types and at many different levels. To this extent, or in this sense, we must define individual and community in a circular way, as each requiring the other to be what it is.

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