Joshua Farris – Humans, Both Creaturely and Divine

Who are we? Why do we exist? In what ways are we creatures and in what sense do we partake of the divine?

Brent talks with Joshua Farris about his Baker Academic Book ‘An Introduction to Theological Anthropology: Humans, Both Creaturely and Divine’.

Joshua is a teacher, pastor, editor, author, blogger and podcaster.  He’s currently the Humboldt Experienced Researcher Fellow at the University of Bochum.  He was a previous fellow at the Creation Project, Carl F. H. Henry Center and the University of London.  

• (1:30) In what sense are we creaturely and divine?
• (5:30) How is Jesus the way humans see God?
• (7:20) What does it mean to be human?
• (8:30) Body and soul;
• (11:55) The Imago Dei;
• (15:30) How Jesus links us with the divine;
• (17:20) How we come to see God;
• (21:45) The scriptural evidence;
• (24:30) Theosis;
• (27:10) Transhumanism in the light of theosis.
  
  

Links mentioned in this episode:

www.joshuarfarris.com

www.amazon.com/Introduction-Theological-Anthropology-Humans-Creaturely/dp/1540962164

Baker Academic Division Homepage | Baker Publishing Group

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