{"id":91188,"date":"2020-04-01T13:41:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T17:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=91188"},"modified":"2020-04-01T13:41:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T17:41:48","slug":"reformed-blogmatics-renewing-theological-anthropology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=91188","title":{"rendered":"(Reformed Blogmatics) Renewing theological anthropology"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his contribution to The Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology<\/em>, Reinhard H\u00fctter describes two approaches to the Christian life. One approach views God as standing behind the human being, with the world lying before him as his ultimate field of engagement. The other approach views the human being as standing before God, with the world coming to him as a gift from God\u2019s fatherly hand in order that it, along with the human being, might ultimately be ordered to God.<\/p>\n

In too many cases, contemporary Reformed and evangelical approaches to anthropology exhibit the former approach rather than the latter. Renewing theological anthropology will, above all, require recovering the latter approach, which locates human beings where they should be located: a little lower than the angels, over the animals, in Christ, in the presence of God, from whom and through whom and to whom are all things (Rom 11:36).<\/p>\n

This, in the end, is the awe and wonder of what it means to be human. \u201cWhat is man?\u201d The psalmist asks. Following Scripture, the Westminster Shorter Catechism answers: man is the creature whose chief end it is \u201cto glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“What is man?” Psalm 8:4 asks. Theological anthropology can help us address this question. Dr. @ScottRSwain<\/a>, President and Professor @RTSOrlando<\/a>, shares his thoughts. https:\/\/t.co\/t73XgZM0FQ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Reformed Seminary (@ReformTheoSem) April 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n