Christian Doctrine of Humanity

Oliver D. Crisp (PhD, University of London; DLitt University of Aberdeen) is Professor of Analytic Theology at the Logos Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology, St. Mary's College, the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He is author of numerous books in analytic and systematic theology, including Analyzing Doctrine: Toward a Systematic Theology; Deviant Calvinism: Broadening Reformed Theology; Divinity and Humanity: The Incarnation Reconsidered; God Incarnate: Explorations in Christology; Retrieving Doctrine: Essays in Reformed Theology; and Revisioning Christology: Theology in the Reformed Tradition. Together with Fred Sanders, he is co-founder of the Los Angeles Theology Conference.Fred Sanders?(PhD, Graduate Theological Union) is professor of theology in the Torrey Honors College at Biola University in La Mirada, California. He is author of numerous books including?The Triune God?in the New Studies in Dogmatics series;?The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything;?Union with Christ and the Life of Faith;?The Holy Spirit: An Introduction; and Fountain of Salvation: Trinity and Soteriology. He is coeditor of?Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective: An Introductory Christology?and?Retrieving Eternal Generation. He is also the co-founder of the Los Angeles Theology Conference.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction (the Editors)List of Contributors1.Marc Cortez (Wheaton College)2.Megan Defranza (Boston University School of Theology)3.Hans Madueme (Covenant College)4.Ian McFarland (University of Cambridge)5.Frances Young (University of Birmingham) 4-6 more essays will be selected from breakout paper submissions:1. Matthew Y. Emerson, Oklahoma Baptist University, 'Mapping Anthropological Metaphysics With a Descensus Key: How Christ’s Descent to the Dead Informs the Body-Mind Conversation'2. Cambria Janae Kaltwasser, Northwestern College, 'Time-Bound Subjects: Responsibility, Death, and Christian Hope'3. Joanna Leidenhag, University of Edinburgh, and R. T. Mullins, University of St. Andrews, 'Flourishing in the Spirit: Distinguishing Incarnation and Indwelling for Theological Anthropology'4. Christa L. McKirland, University of St. Andrews; Jason McMartin, Biola University; Timothy H. Pickavance, Biola University, 'Embodiment, Edwards, and Knowledge'5. David W. McNutt, IVP Academic, 'Created to Create? A Critique of (and Appeal to) Human Creativity in Theological Anthropology'6. Richard Mouw, President Emeritus, Fuller Theological Seminary, 'The Relevance of Biblical Eschatology for Philosophical Anthropology'7. Faith Glavey Pawl, University of St. Thomas, 'Human Superiority, Divine Providence, and the Animal Good: a Thomistic Defense of Creaturely Hierarchy' 8. Lucy Peppiatt, Westminster Theological Centre, 'Life in the Spirit: Christ's and Ours'9. Ryan Peterson, Talbot School of Theology, 'Created and Constructed Identities in Theological Anthropology'10. Chelle Stearns, The Seattle School, 'An Ecology of Mutuality: Colin Gunton and Frances Young on Relationality, Disability, and Being Human'11. Gabrielle R. Thomas, Durham University, ''Vulnerable, Yet Divine:' Retrieving Gregory Nazianzen's Account of the Imago Dei'12. Aku Visala, University of Helsinki, 'Human Cognition and the Image of God'