Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Anthropology and the Incarnation
In Touchstone magazine, Patrick Henry Reardon has a short essay called "Anthropology & the Incarnation." Unfortunately, I cannot find a link to the essay. If you can track down a copy of the May 2005 issue, I encourage you to check out the piece. We've talked a lot about the relevance of "moral anthropology" to legal questions. Reardon opens with this paragraph:
The assertion that the Word became flesh, whatever else it implies, certainly creates a new and unexpected context in which to pose the question, 'What does it mean to be a human being?' It really is not possible to affirm, 'God became man,' and then proceed to ponder the concept of humanity apart from that affirmation. In short, the doctrine of the Incarnation must dominate, have complete lordship over, anthropology.
Rick
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2005/05/anthropology_an.html