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This is a Special Bonus Episode featuring a talk I did on Identity and Personhood as as part of the LIFE Podcast Series in June 2020

To the philosopher personhood is a technical term, but person doesn't necessarily equal human. To the biologist human is a biological term you're human if you have human DNA that's it. However, to a Christian person is what is called a moral term. For most Christian theologists person are beings who are part of the moral community and therefore deserve moral consideration.
What constitutes a person is at the core of almost every major social debate and issue you can think of. Black live matter, abortion, animal rights, the death penalty, euthanasia. As Christians we need to try at some level, have an understanding of personhood in order that we might begin to understand how we see ourselves and others. Whether as a believer your Interest or job has touchpoints in human rights or computers science and artificial intelligence. Mental health and peoples capacity for decision making and freewill, science or sociology, it really helpful to try and get to the bottom of personhood. Interestingly from a Christian perspective an understanding of personhood starts not with an understanding of humanity but rather with our view of God.

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