1.17 Stephen Wellum, David Schrock • Interview • ”Incarnation Versus Excarnation in Culture and Church”

How has Gnosticism—an ancient idea that we must escape our physical bodies—influenced transgenderism, euthanasia, and 120-pound women beating grown men in martial arts movie scenes? And what does a double decker bus have to do with it? Listen in to Stephen Wellum and David Schrock as they discuss P. Andrew Sandlin's hard hitting longform essay.

Timestamps

0:32 - Intro

2:33 – What is incarnation and excarnation?

3:36 – How Hymns Speak of Christ’s Incarnation

5:32 – Excarnation Defined

6:20 – What is Gnosticism?

10:21 – What are ways we have lost the Doctrine of Creation?

12:24 – How does the Doctrine of Creation inform our thinking about the world?

14:18 – Bodies becoming ‘tools’ for the inner man

16:30 – How has our culture impacted the Church through ‘disembodied living’?

19:41 – ‘Cyber’-Disciples

22:02 – A Theology of the Body

24:15 – Glorifying God in an ‘Embodied’ Sense

27:04 – Creation Mandate’s Rejection Impacts Our Culture

30:12 – Celebrating the Incarnation brings us back to a right understanding of the body

35:45 - Outro