A Tinge of "Christian Anthropology" - book excerpt

“The naïve exaltation of man by the humanist who believes that man can be perfected by social engineering or by psychiatric or behavioralistic reconstruction of his psyche is as far from the mark as the disregard of human potentialities by the cynic. Man is both better and worse than any view except the Christian view can adequately express. On the Christian view, even the dullest and most limited of us can grow in God into a glorious being beyond our present dreams of divinity. Even the noblest of us now can take the path that will lead him eventually away from God to nothingness. And this can and must affect our attitude to our fellow humans.”
—Richard Purtill

From his book “Reason to Believe”.