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Anthropology

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Aren't the Efficiencies Technology Promises Good for Humanity?

Efficiency is good for some things and corrosive for others. Because efficiency is always relative to a goal, the deeper question is whether the goals our technologies make us efficient at serving are the goals that conform us to Christ.

Can AI Glorify God?

AI is a tool, and tools can be turned to God's glory — but the question is more complicated than it sounds. AI does not glorify God by default, and Christians who use AI without discernment may find themselves serving its embedded assumptions rather than the other way around.

Is Jesus the Paragon of Masculinity or the Paragon of Humanity?

Jesus is the paragon of humanity, not masculinity. His life, death, and resurrection reveal what a human being surrendered to God looks like—and categorizing his characteristics as specifically "masculine" creates the incoherent implication that women imitating Christ are imitating across a gender divide.

Is Privacy a Right, a Privilege, or a Theological Necessity?

Privacy in Scripture is not a stand-alone right but a feature of God's ordering of property, relationships, and community. It carries genuine theological weight — but Christians should not absolutize it as a refuge from being known by God or their community.

What Does AI Threaten About Being Human?

AI does not threaten humanity by replacing humans but by quietly reshaping our understanding of what humans are for. When cognition, creativity, and relationship can all be approximated by machines, Christians face a renewed need to articulate what makes humans distinct—and that articulation must be theological, not functional.

What Does It Mean to Say That Masculinity Is a Cultural Construction?

Biological sex (male/female) is a biblical given, but "masculinity" and "femininity" are cultural scripts of traits and behaviors layered on top of sex—scripts that vary across history and cultures and that Scripture itself does not use as prescriptive theological categories.

What Does the Incarnation Teach Christians about Technology?

The Incarnation teaches that technology cannot substitute for embodied, self-giving presence in the world. Christ’s incarnation was not merely about physical proximity but about the self-sacrificial posture that prompted it—a posture technology routinely allows us to bypass. Christians must resist the pull toward dis-incarnation, recognizing that digital presence is not the same as presence in the flesh.

What Is Transhumanism, and Why Should Christians Care?

Transhumanism is the philosophical movement that treats human biological limits as problems to be overcome through technology. It deserves Christian attention because its softer, more pervasive forms have already shaped how many Christians think about bodies, aging, dependence, and finitude.

Why Do We Default to Technological Solutions Despite the Risks?

We default to technological solutions because the myth of progress has been so deeply embedded in modern culture that pragmatism feels like common sense—and because we have largely lost the theological imagination to ask what flourishing requires beyond efficiency.

Why Is Technology Best Understood as a Response to a Broken World?

Technology is not neutral progress but a response to diminished human capacity in a fallen world. From the fig leaves of Genesis 3:7 forward, human beings have used tools to navigate a creation fractured by sin—making technology a sign of our need for redemption rather than the means of it.