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Category: Theological Anthropology
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The Imago Dei and Cosmic Stewardship: Re-evaluating the Animal Rights Debate within the Promise-Plan of God
This essay examines animal welfare and human dignity through the image of God and humanity’s stewardship of creation. Engaging Paul Copan and competing ethical frameworks, it argues for humane care grounded in responsibility before the Creator.
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Escaping the Machine: Theosis, Transhumanism, and the Consummation of the Promise-Plan
This study contrasts Christian participation in divine life with secular transhumanist visions of human enhancement. It explores theosis, the beatific vision, embodied resurrection, and humanity’s royal-priestly calling within the unfolding promise-plan of God.
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Beyond the Machine Metaphor: Systems Biology, Organismal Agency, and the Re-Enchantment of the Living World
Denis Noble’s systems-biology critique frames an examination of gene-centered reductionism, organismal agency, and biblical accounts of living wholeness.
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The Ontological Foundations of Human Dignity: A Biblical-Theological and Philosophical Refutation of “Speciesism”
The essay defends intrinsic human dignity against capacity-based personhood while grounding compassionate animal care and stewardship in the image of God.
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Between Mortality and New Creation
An exegetical and philosophical defense of a conscious intermediate state that preserves personal identity while keeping bodily resurrection and renewed creation central to Christian hope.
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Tzelem and the Cosmic Temple
This essay argues that being God’s image is an identity bestowed on every human being, rather than a status earned through reason, language, or other capacities. It connects that identity with royal-priestly vocation, the cosmic temple, and renewal…
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Adam’s Royal Mandate: The Creation Blueprint, Cosmic Sanctuary, and the Teleological Arc of the Promise-Plan
Genesis 1:26–28 establishes humanity’s royal and priestly vocation within God’s creation. This study traces blessing, seed, and land through the promise-plan to the Last Adam while preserving the dignity of every image-bearer.
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The Mind-Body Interaction
This study defends holistic substance dualism against reductive physicalism while locating embodied human identity within creation and resurrection.
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Gender, Metaphysics, and the Divine Icon
A theological anthropology of sexed embodiment, the imago Dei, soul-body unity, marriage typology, Christological particularity, and the promise-plan.