The first truth about human being is that we are not autonomous but evoked: to be a human person is to be called out of nothingness into dialogical fellowship with God and others. Our general vocation as human beings is to respond to the divine summons to be the creature the Creator intended for us to be…. Personal identity is less a matter of some underlying substance than it is of the characteristic style of one’s relationship with others, the style of our answerability to the calls of others and especially to the call of God.