The Order of Reality: Sacred Vocation
This series of lectures explores human identity and nature within the biblical ritual world by exploring male and female as vocational realities. This will include a recounting of the story of theological anthropology, including the Boethian legacy of viewing the human person as a “what” among other “whats” in creation. Appreciating the Christological intention in that Boethian legacy, we will propose a counter-vision in which the human person, distinct as divine image-bearers within creation, are most fundamentally a “who” in a world of “whats.” Human persons are those in whom the historical and eschatological purpose of the triune God are figures historically, physiologically, and liturgically in terms of an elemental, “all the way down” sexuate rather than merely sexual significance of our being either male or female, a conviction with great consequences for contemporary debates over gender, domestic life, and the dynamics of life within the Church.
This series of lectures explores human identity and nature within the biblical ritual world by exploring male and female as vocational realities. This will include a recounting of the story of theological anthropology, including the Boethian legacy of viewing the human person as a “what” among other “whats” in creation. Appreciating the Christological intention in that Boethian legacy, we will propose a counter-vision in which the human person, distinct as divine image-bearers within creation, are most fundamentally a “who” in a world of “whats.” Human persons are those in whom the historical and eschatological purpose of the triune God are figures historically, physiologically, and liturgically in terms of an elemental, “all the way down” sexuate rather than merely sexual significance of our being either male or female, a conviction with great consequences for contemporary debates over gender, domestic life, and the dynamics of life within the Church.
This series of lectures explores human identity and nature within the biblical ritual world by exploring male and female as vocational realities. This will include a recounting of the story of theological anthropology, including the Boethian legacy of viewing the human person as a “what” among other “whats” in creation. Appreciating the Christological intention in that Boethian legacy, we will propose a counter-vision in which the human person, distinct as divine image-bearers within creation, are most fundamentally a “who” in a world of “whats.” Human persons are those in whom the historical and eschatological purpose of the triune God are figures historically, physiologically, and liturgically in terms of an elemental, “all the way down” sexuate rather than merely sexual significance of our being either male or female, a conviction with great consequences for contemporary debates over gender, domestic life, and the dynamics of life within the Church.