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The Image of God and Ruling with Christ

June 16, 2020 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - anthropology, Heiser, image of God, Ruling with Christ, the doctrine of man

What is the image of God? I have read just about every different theory you can imagine trying to identify the nature of the image of God. I have seen candidates such as being self-aware, or intelligent, or capable of speech, or capable of love, or having a soul, or (as Karl Barth suggested) being

Jean Vanier and the Trouble with Works Salvation

March 6, 2020 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - anthropology, Jean Vanier, ladder theology, sexual abuse

Everyone knows Mother Teresa. But you may not know the name Jean Vanier. I did. He was Canada’s equivalent to Mother Teresa. Vanier was the son of a Canadian ambassador, who became a Catholic theologian and philosopher and left academia to found the international L’Arche communities for people with developmental disabilities (currently 154 centers in