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