We are in a cultural moment when the consensus of what it means to be human has turned into a dismal portrait. A key aspect of the Biblical worldview is our Creator telling us who we are, i.e. God’s anthropology. In this master class, we will explore how and why humans are fearfully and wonderfully made.
Watch recordings from this Master Class:
1) ‘Who Is It Who Can Tell Me Who I Am?’; Humans as the Image of God
In this session, we examine two secular explanations for what a human is; the hardware and software accounts. These reductions of who we are stand in contrast to the Bible's much better account.
2) ‘The Interior Castle’; A View from the Inside
Modern anthropologies have discarded the reality of the human soul and reduced our internal side to a function of the brain, i.e., consciousness. We will explore why the Biblical reality of the human spirit is essential to who and what we are.
3) ‘Minding the World’; Humans as Knowledge Seekers
Blaise Pascal wrote, "man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed”. In this session, we will see how our capacity to know sets us apart from the rest of nature.
4) ‘Now Cracks a Noble Heart’; What’s Wrong With Humans?
The secular age struggles to account for what’s wrong with humans. Blaise Pascal taught that the human capacity for creating havoc on the earth was another sign of how we are fearfully and wonderfully made. In this session, we will examine the Bible's account for what’s wrong, and what this communicates about humans.
5) ‘A New Humanity’; Abolition or Absolution?
Humanism has been a grand project to redeem humanity and make us new. In this final session, we see how this has failed, instead leading us to the brink of the ‘abolition of man’. Christianity plots the better path to becoming new through the work of Christ who is the true root of a new humanity.
