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In the contemporary horizon with its shattered frame of references and monist anthropology, one is growingly at a loss to define what is properly human. Yesterday’s self-evident standards now appear obsolete. Summoned by J.-L. Nancy’s anthropological reduction of Christian doctrine, our paper aims to show how Christian anthropology is underpinned by theologal references. Acknowledging finiteness and the recognition of otherness as defining anthropological data we suggest connecting them to three areas of understanding within the Christian doctrine : the covenant, with its unilateral and bilateral dialectics; the Trinitarian symbolism between persons and perichoresis; the eschatological dynamics between the Kingdom’s « already here » and its « forthcoming ».