Alan Noble – You Are Not Your Own

2025-10-29

How has Western thinking encouraged us to believe that we are our own? Brent talks with Alan Noble about a new paperback edition of his IVP book ‘You Are Not Your Own: Belonging to God in an Inhuman World’. Alan is associate professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University, a fellow of the Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics, and the author of a number of books and articles. (1:00) Our inhuman culture; (3:55) Western thinking and individualism; (5:00) The price of individualism; (6:50) Self-justification; (9:45) Techni...

How has Western thinking encouraged us to believe that we are our own?

Brent talks with Alan Noble about a new paperback edition of his IVP book ‘You Are Not Your Own: Belonging to God in an Inhuman World’.

Alan is associate professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University, a fellow of the Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics, and the author of a number of books and articles.

(1:00) Our inhuman culture;
(3:55) Western thinking and individualism;
(5:00) The price of individualism;
(6:50) Self-justification;
(9:45) Technique;
(13:40) Christian identity;
(16:30) God and our identity;
(18:30) Prodigality;
(21:55) Representing Christ in our communities.

Links mentioned in this episode:

www.amazon.com/You-Are-Not-Your-Own/dp/151401095X

www.oalannoble.com

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