The contribution presents shifts that have formed what we today understand as Christian theological anthropology. Looking at two collective volumes, Who is the Human Being? Theological Anthropology in an Ecumenical Perspective; and The Process of Maturing: Human Childhood and Adulthood in a Theological Perspective, it evaluates the importance of human freedom, relationality, creative search for meaning, the gift/ability to discern, and capacity to grow in the social, cultural and political challenges of our century. It analyses different underlying philosophical and theological ideas and methodologies implemented in order to take on board social, cultural and political challenges of our century, and within them to communicate an ecumenically informed vision of humankind in relationship with God and will all that is of God. It pays attention to the differentiation between being and becoming, that helps in perceiving human life as a movement in which the personal, the historical, and the eschatological orientations interact.