In “The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self”, Carl Trueman argues that a single modern self—emotive, expressive, and therapeutic—dominates understandings of personal identity the modern West. This paper builds on Trueman’s framework but proposes a critical refinement: modernity produces not one but two dominant and rival visions of the self. Alongside the therapeutic self of Montaigne and Rousseau—marked by self-expression, emotional authenticity, and inner psychological coherence—we must also recognize the rise of a self with its roots in the Stoic ideal of inner discipline and Descartes’s universalist rationalism, expressed in terms of the voluntary self-sacrifice exemplified culturally by Jordan Peterson’s calls to responsibility, suffering, and heroic burden-bearing. Both modern selves, I argue, are partial derivatives of a more complex biblical self. The emotive self takes the intimacy of being known by a God who sees all and yet still loves and flattens it into a thin gesture of psychological affirmation; the sacrificial self retains the language of responsibility but evacuates it of grace. Against both, the biblical self, grounded in the person of Jesus Christ—who voluntarily sacrifices himself for others and who knows every hair on our heads—is neither emotivist nor stoic, but covenantal, relational, and redemptive. This paper will examine these competing anthropologies through theological, philosophical, and cultural lenses, suggesting that what appears as cultural fragmentation is in fact a symmetrical and self-reinforcing heretical dyad of a once-coherent biblical vision of the self.