19: In All Our Inadequacies

We don’t just need good teachings or ideas about human nature and mental health.

We need a vision of human life and love and work as it's meant to be.

When we let Jesus be our anthropologist, we learn his teachings on the human person.

But Jesus is more than that. He’s also the true anthropos: the true human being.

He shows us the life we were meant for, and he invites us into it.

Sources: Luke 10:25-37 (NIV)

2 Peter 1:4 (NIV)

Irenaeus, Against Heresies, trans. Robert M. Grant, in Irenaeus of Lyons, The Early Church Fathers (London: Routledge, 1997). 

Athanasius, On the Incarnation, trans. John Behr, Popular Patristics Series, no. 44b (Yonkers, New York: St Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2011). 

Augustine, Quaestiones Evangeliorum, II, 19, abridged as cited in C.H. Dodd, The Parables of the Kingdom (New York: Scribners, 1961), in James McIlhone, “Augustine's Commentary on the Good Samaritan.”

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