__"Your one-stop resource for theological anthropology"__   
"An authentic tour de force, this book is your one-stop resource for theological anthropology, for students and professors alike. Farris demonstrates the fecundity of a broad evangelical Reformed tradition--in constant dialogue with the broader Christian tradition--for a wide array of topics related to the nature of humanity. He articulates a comprehensive anthropology adequately grounded in a doctrine of creation, yet without neglecting either Christology or eschatology."  
--__Adonis Vidu__, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary  
  
"What, who, and why am I? Few questions are more complicated and important to answer. Farris offers a bold, lucid, and comprehensive vision of the human person as an embodied soul whose identity and purpose are found in the vision of God. Unapologetically evangelical and Reformed, this introduction is a valuable resource for both teaching and research."  
--__Joanna Leidenhag__, University of St. Andrews  
  
"Farris retrieves the best of the Christian tradition's reflections on human persons while interacting with various challenges of the twenty-first century. His work is attentive to questions arising from modern theology, philosophy, and the natural sciences. It addresses those questions from a broad Reformed and evangelical perspective in a style that will be accessible for many. Farris provides an engaging, integrated work that I look forward to using in my classroom."  
--__Mary L. Vanden Berg__, Calvin Theological Seminary  
  
"With An Introduction to Theological Anthropology, Farris gives the Christian theological community a sorely needed text. It pays careful attention to biblical, theological, and philosophical scholarship, all of which are relevant to this very complicated area of theological research and teaching. Farris's book evidences the sort of interdisciplinary sensitivity demonstrative of the theologian who takes seriously that theology is the queen of the sciences. This text's methodology and content guarantee that I'll use it in my courses."  
--__J. T. Turner__, Anderson University  
  
"Farris is a leading figure in the resurgent field of theological anthropology. In this excellent volume, he distills years of first-rate research into a lively and informative introduction to the subject. Farris expounds the body-soul relationship, creaturely and divine purpose, beatific vision, and deification, boldly pointing the way for Protestants committed to a robust account of theological anthropology."  
--__Jerry L. Walls__, Houston Baptist University

__Joshua R. Farris__ (PhD, University of Bristol) is Chester and Margaret Paluch Lecturer for 2019-2020 at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake. He was assistant professor of theology at Houston Baptist University and served as a Henry Fellow for the Creation Project at the Carl F. H. Henry Center at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is author of The Soul of Theological Anthropology and the coeditor of Christian Physicalism? and The Ashgate Research Companion to Theological Anthropology.

In this thorough introduction to theological anthropology, Joshua Farris offers an evangelical perspective on the topic. Farris walks the reader through some of the most important issues in traditional approaches to anthropology, such as sexuality, posthumanism, and the image of God. He addresses fundamental questions like, Who am I? and Why do I exist? He also considers the creaturely and divine nature of humans, the body-soul relationship, and the beatific vision.

Written from an evangelical perspective, this comprehensive introduction explores some of the most important issues in theological anthropology.

__Contents__ Foreword by Marc Cortez  
Preface: Humans--Creaturely and Divine  
Introduction: Where Do We Begin? Humans, Prolegomena, and Method 1. What Am I? Creaturely and Redemptive Identity  
2. What Am I and Where Did I Originate? Are We Apes, Humans, or Gods?  
3. What Am I in Relation to God? The Image as Creaturely and Divine  
4. What Does It Mean to Be Free? Freedom as Creaturely and Divine  
5. Who Am I at Birth? Original Sin and Creaturely Failure  
6. Who Am I in Christ? Humans, Descended and Ascended  
7. Who Are We in Culture? Creaturely and Divine in Work, Race, and Disability  
8. Who Are We as Male and Female? Humans as Gendered and Sexual  
9. Why Am I Here? Creaturely Living, Dying, and the In-Between  
10. Why Do I Exist? Creaturely Process and Divine Destiny  
Conclusion: Where Do We Go from Here?  
Appendix: Philosophy and Theology in Anthropology: A Review of Recent Literature  
Suggested Readings  
Indexes

Farris, Joshua R.

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