All roads in the church lead to humankind, Pope John Paul II wrote in his first encyclical. But what is it to be a human being? And what vision does Christian theology offer for being and becoming human? In the past theology has taken the role of the dominant ideology in a society claiming to present a complete vision of humankind and its place in creation. Now Comblin argues we need to re-establish the primacy of the biblical message and tradition being lived today. The Bible espouses a non-idealized, non-individualized, but realistic and communitarian view of what it means to be human.