Moral anthropology and the new evangelization

Here, at Whispers in the Loggia (HT:  Peter Nixon), is Cardinal Wuerl's opening address to the Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization.  Like Nixon, I was struck by Cardinal Wuerl's emphasis on "Christian anthropology" -- an account of who and what the person is and what the person is for -- as a theological foundation for this new evangelization.  (See this essay for some thoughts of mine on Christian "moral anthropology".)   Here's a bit:

If secularization with its atheistic tenden-cies removes God
from the equation, the very understanding of what it means to behuman is
altered.  Thus the New Evangelization
must point to the very origin of ourhuman dignity, self-knowledge and
self-realization.  The fact that each
person is created in the image and likeness of God forms the basis for declaring,
for example, the universality of human rights. 
Here, once again, we see the opportunity to speak with conviction to a
doubting community about the truth and integrity of realities such as marriage,
family, the natural moral order and an objective right and wrong. . . .  The New Evangelization must rest upon
thetheological understanding that it is Christ who reveals man to himself,
man’s true identity in Christ, the new Adam. 
This aspect of the New Evangelization has a very practical meaning for
the individual.  If it is Christ who
reveals to us who God is and, therefore, who we are and how we relate to God,
then God is not remote or distantly far off. . .