Timestamps to Know
· 00:32 – Intro
· 03:35 – Encouragements as We Look Forward to 2025
· 07:23 – Why is the Question of Humanity Historically Important?
· 12:20 – Why Should Congregants or Laypersons Study the Doctrine of Humanity?
· 17:31 – How Did the Change to an Enlightenment Epistemology Effect the Doctrine of Humanity?
· 23:10 – A Mirrored Reality That is Lost
· 30:00 – How Is This Piece Helpful in How Dr. Van Relates This to Economics?
· 34:44 – Man Creating God
· 43:03 –Do Other Systematic Theologies Address Our Modern Anthropological Problems?
· 45:25 – Denying Politics Denies the Doctrine of Man
· 54:15 – How Does the Doctrine of Humanity Help Us Preach the Gospel?
· 1:00:18 - Outro
Resources to Click
·“The Need for Theological Anthropology” – Stephen J. Wellum
· “The Extinction of Experience: Christine Rosen on the Impact of Technology on Society” – Uncommon Knowledge
· “The Embodied Person: Why I Am My Body, Not Just My Soul” – Gregg Allison
· “Going Deeper” – Daniel Strange
· “Can You Understand a Kangaroo Without a Bible? Why I Hold to a Revelational Epistemology” – Pierce Taylor Hibbs
· “Abortion Statistics 1973-2019”
· “Majority of Americans Remain Supportive of Euthanasia” – Jade Wood and Justin McCarthy
· “Why They Kill Their Newborns” – Steven Pinker
· “WEF Mastermind: ‘Human Rights are Fiction, Just Like God’ – Frank Bergman
· Theme of the Month: The Image of God in Scripture and Society
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Books to Read
· The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World – Christine Rosen
· The Abolition of Man – C.S. Lewis
· “Human Being, Individual and Social” by Kevin J.
Vanhoozer in The Cambridge Companion to Christian Doctrine – ed. Colin E. Gunton
· An Essay on Man: The 18th Century Enlightenment Classic – Alexander Pope
· The Message in the Bottle - Walker Percy
· The Human Body Shop – Andrew Kimbrell
· The Wedge of Truth: Splitting the Foundations of Naturalism – Phillip E. Johnson
· False Flag: Why Queer Politics Mean the End of America – Joy Pullman
· Losing Our Virtue: Why the Church Must Recover Its Moral Vision – David F. Wells
·“Losing Our Religion: The Impact of Secularisation on the Understanding of Sin” in Ruined Sinners to Reclaim – ed. David Gibson
· The Intolerance of Tolerance – D.A. Carson
· A Critique of Pure Tolerance – Robert Paul Wolff
· “Sin’s Contemporary Significance,” by D.A.
Carson in Fallen: A Theology of Sin – ed. Christopher W. Morgan and Robert A. Peterson
· Idols for Destruction: The Conflict of Christian Faith in American Culture – Herbert Schlossberg
· How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture – Franciss A. Schaeffer
·Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow – Yuval Noah Harari
· The Institutes of the Christian Religion – John Calvin
· Our Civilizational Moment: The Waning of the West and the War of the Worlds – Os Guinness
