Tuesday, July 3, 2012

What Does It Mean to Be Human?

Who or what we are as human beings is a crucial question. And it’s one that’s set to take on even more crucial significance as the common ground on which we might judge such a thing becomes less and less. Are we valuable because of our capacity for reason or something of that nature, or is it because we are made in the image of God?


Those are the questions with which this video begins. And, in response, Stanley Hauwerwas offers some interesting thoughts on what it means to be “human.”



I love that Hauerwas answered the question with Christology: “To be a human being is, first and foremost, to recognize that God became one of us in Jesus Christ.” Without hesitation he pointed to Jesus as the...

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