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I’m generally sympathetic to Robert Gundry’s helpful explication of the role of the body in Biblical theology. His careful exegetical work foreshadowed John Cooper’s conclusions in Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting: the anthropology of Scripture points toward something like a […]
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Andy Crouch is really smart. He's written one of the most important books on evangelicals relationship to culture in the last 20 years. And he's always
Matthew Lee AndersonAnthropologyembodimentTheology and Practice
If Peter Leithart's latest writings are any indication, he's working on an essay or a book on the meaning of embodiment. Which would be fantastic. The
Jeremy MannembodimentAnthropology
Today as I set-up shop in a line at the Los Angeles DMV I happened to read an incisive essay published in Vogue forty years ago. The article was written by Susan Sontag, and my profit from it proves that […]
Matthew Lee AndersonAnthropologyembodimentTheology and Practice
Wendell Berry's essay "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine" is a gem. I won't recap the whole argument, but along the way he provides
Matthew Lee AndersonembodimentAnthropology
In one very important sense, the scientific revolution was over before it began. At least if Noam Chomsky is right. In his collection of essays, On Nature and Language, Chomsky argues that Galileo adopted a mechanical method of intelligibility. In […]
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We are thus stuck between two unrealistic views of the autonomy of the individual. The first is that the self can be autonomous forever; the second is that only the
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We also must return to Pascal for a reminder that the biotechnological project cannot turn us human beings from mysterious into manufactured beings. The effort to deny the reality of the fundamental unpredictability of human life that is intrinsic to […]
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Imperturbable smiles are pitiable things, somewhat reminiscent of the Little Prince’s rose who took naive delight in her four thorns, unjustifiably proud of the one thing that made her vulnerable—and laughable; or of Voltaire’s Candide always optimistically re-interpreting the facts […]
Keith E. BuhlerAnthropologyembodimentTheology and Practice
Which is more important, to know reality or to know yourself? This distinction keeps coming up in the sources I have been reading (or listening to) and I'd
Matthew Lee AndersonAnthropologyembodimentTheology and Practice
I recently began to read Andrew Murray's spiritual classic, With Christ in the School of Prayer. The missionary to Africa bids his fellow disciples in Christ to beg
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“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. 34 You brood of