The Church’s deliberate resistance to Modernity and its turn to the subject may be said to have been a fruitless one. This is because a closer study of the Catholic Church’s view on the human person, even when it offers a turn to otherness and relationality, reveals an intrinsic bias for the subjective turn. This forces the question, has the Church’s theological imagination, especially that of its global magisterium been conditioned by the western cultural bias for the subjective turn? I argue in this chapter that the Church’s magisterial teaching reflects the western bias for subjectivity as the locus of human dignity even though it makes a serious effort to instantiate a moral turn for the affirmation of alterity. Consequently, I agree with Emmanuel Levinas that such discourse on human dignity that begins with the subject will always slip into the domain of violence when the other appears in the scene as an embodiment of foreignness. To address this slip into violence, I argue for an alternative view on the human person that is grounded in an African anthropological consciousness as found among the Ihievbe People of Nigeria.