WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE HUMAN?

A study on understanding our humanity addressing the modern questions and issues about being human.

277 pages soft back
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Contemporary secularists interpret humankind to be the consequence of physiological, biological, psychological, sociological and economic determination. Why are materialistic secularists inclined to draw these conclusions? Is there neither value nor meaning underlying our humanity? What evidence points to a conclusion affirming the freedom, responsibility and dignity of humanity? And, is there any justification for the Judeo-Christian affirmation of every human having been created in the image of God? How shall we understand this image? What does it mean to be human and how does this meaning impact our response to God and our behavior toward each other? These and additional relevant questions are raised and explored by this study.

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Chapters

1. Introduction to the Essays on the Uniqueness of Human Dignity 1

2. Christian Presuppositions About Being Human 41

3. Evolution and the Ascent of Humanity 81

4. A Christian Critique of Natural Evolutionary Presuppositionalism 103

5. The Uniqueness of Human Birth 121

6. The Uniqueness of Human Physiology 131

7. The Uniqueness of Human Sexuality 147

8. The Uniqueness of Human Language 159

9. The Uniqueness of Human Psychology 175

10. The Uniqueness of Human Intimacy 181

11. The Uniqueness of Human Morality 191

12. The Uniqueness of Human Tools and Work 207

13. The Uniqueness of Human Culture 215

14. The Uniqueness of Human Learning and Progress 233

15. The Uniqueness of Human Choice 249

16. The Uniqueness of Human Spirituality 257

Postscript 275

Tables

The Hermeneutical Circle Leading to Understanding 10

A Model for Linear Time 204

The Regressive Intensity of Negative Emotions and

Their Positive Biblical Counterparts 223

Summation of The Biblical Ten Commandments 265