| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Theological Anthropology | This is concerned with doctrinal reflection upon the nature and destiny of human beings created in the image of God. In light of the biblical witness, it recognizes that human beings, subject to temptation and fallen into sin, are depraved. |
| The Image of God | From Philo of Alexandria on, the Image of God has been associated with rationality. |
| Irenaeus | This theologian is responsible for teaching us that Christ "recapitulates" in his own earthly life, the destiny and purpose of humankind. |
| Augustine | This figure is responsible for the following passage: "It is you, Lord, who judge me. For though no one can know a man's thoughts except that man's own spirit within him, there are some things in man which even his own spirit within him does not know. But you, Lord, know all there is to know of him, because you made him ... This much I know, although at present I am looking at a confused reflection in a mirror ... my hope lies in the knowledge that you do not play us false. I shall therefore confess both what I know and what I do not know. For even what I know about myself I know because your light shines upon me; and what I do not know about myself I shall continue not to know until I see you face to face and my dusk is noonday." |
| A Culture of Authenticity | When Charles Taylor writes that when people "resist the effort to root human identity in a tradition or external authority, such as the church or scripture" and instead "are driven to imagine that in order to be properly human, they must turn inwards. through expressive introspection in the hope of discovering their unique personhood" they are unknowingly shaped by this. |
| Hierarchy or superiority of man over woman | While Barth thinks this is part of the first creation story, Migliore disagrees with Barth on this matter. |
| Love | According to the biblical witness, this is NOT first of all a duty-it is NOT something that we owe to God and others. |
| Immortality of the Soul | This is NOT a Christian belief. |
| "soul," "spirit," "heart," and "body" | In the Old Testament, these terms do NOT denote specific body parts because the Old Testament is uninterested in the way in which these parts are related to the activity of the body as a whole. |
| flesh or "sarx" | Our lecture on anthropology has NOT taught us that this is inherently evil, and that salvation is deliverance out of the mortal body. |
| The Postmodern Period | This makes it difficult for us to follow Polonius' advice to his son Laertes, "This above all, to thine own self be true." |
| Karl Barth | This theologian writes the following while commenting upon the arrogance and over-confident autonomy of the modern person: "man only wants to judge. He thinks he sits on a high throne, but in reality he sits only on a child's stool, blowing his little trumpet, cracking his little whip, pointing with frightful seriousness his little finger, while all the time nothing happens that really matters. He can only play the judge. |
| Galatians 2:20 | This passage teaches us that out "true self" is hidden with Christ in God. So much is this true that we ought to join Bonhoeffer in resting our hope in the confession, "Whoever I am, You know me, O God, You know I am yours!" |
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