The Promise of Christian Humanism

5min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

Christian humanism is a way of resetting what Christianity is for and Christian humanism at its best says that every human being no matter. There's something about being formed to become more fully free alive joyful and morally responsible. So far as we are like Christ is the measure of what it fully is to be human we have to constantly find our own cultural conceptions of what that means chipped away so it's only through the point of encounter with those who are different quite different from us often whether ideological these days.

Curtis tackles this epoch defining question with Comment Editor in Chief, Anne Snyder Brooks. Together they explore the distinctive vision Christians have to offer a world beset by dehumanizing forces. This wide ranging exploration includes both the big ideas and stakes involved in this question, as well as practical steps each one of us can take to embody (in the words of Irenaeus) “the glory of God in a human being fully alive.”

Resources mentioned by Anne: