Are we losing our humanity?
The perception that we are is widespread.
The ultimate answer is no. Christ's victory over sin and death at Calvary is complete. It is finished and cannot be undone. He has purchased a people for Himself by His blood, and God the Holy Spirit has been given to Christians to work and do God's good and perfect will in the world, in accordance with the Scriptures.
Since Whitsun (Pentecost), His gospel has been spreading to all nations throughout the earth. In fulfillment of the Great Commission, nations and cultures have been transformed under Christ's Lordship throughout history. The new humanity renewed the humanities, which, like the people themselves, had fallen into idolatry, been perverted by the doctrine of demons, and were lost with original sin.
It began by insisting that all people are God's image-bearers, and Jesus Christ Himself the image of the invisible God.
The tri-personal nature of God, and Jesus' full humanity and divinity are the root teaching of a Christian humanities, restoring the ruins of our first parents.
But if Christ's victory at Calvary cannot be undone, false teaching can and does distort the lessons of history, and even suggests that Christians are 'on the wrong side of history.' Only a people ignorant of God's transformative work in history could believe such blatant falsehoods. And when they do, the effect is to lose the historic gains of the Christian humanities.
We can see the evidence of that everywhere today.
The Whitsun Institute upholds and defends Christian education based on its theological and historic roots in three areas.
It provides resources for cultural instruction in the historic humanities; it serves as a hub for Classical Christian education today; and it provides resources to give a Christian response to the largely unrecognized but growing challenge to Christian personhood posed by transhumanist and posthumanist initiatives.
The perception that we are is widespread.
The ultimate answer is no. Christ's victory over sin and death at Calvary is complete. It is finished and cannot be undone. He has purchased a people for Himself by His blood, and God the Holy Spirit has been given to Christians to work and do God's good and perfect will in the world, in accordance with the Scriptures.
Since Whitsun (Pentecost), His gospel has been spreading to all nations throughout the earth. In fulfillment of the Great Commission, nations and cultures have been transformed under Christ's Lordship throughout history. The new humanity renewed the humanities, which, like the people themselves, had fallen into idolatry, been perverted by the doctrine of demons, and were lost with original sin.
It began by insisting that all people are God's image-bearers, and Jesus Christ Himself the image of the invisible God.
The tri-personal nature of God, and Jesus' full humanity and divinity are the root teaching of a Christian humanities, restoring the ruins of our first parents.
But if Christ's victory at Calvary cannot be undone, false teaching can and does distort the lessons of history, and even suggests that Christians are 'on the wrong side of history.' Only a people ignorant of God's transformative work in history could believe such blatant falsehoods. And when they do, the effect is to lose the historic gains of the Christian humanities.
We can see the evidence of that everywhere today.
The Whitsun Institute upholds and defends Christian education based on its theological and historic roots in three areas.
It provides resources for cultural instruction in the historic humanities; it serves as a hub for Classical Christian education today; and it provides resources to give a Christian response to the largely unrecognized but growing challenge to Christian personhood posed by transhumanist and posthumanist initiatives.
Humanities education
Cultural catachesis
The university had its historic roots in the late medieval period, building upon more than a millennium of Christian doctrine. The unity in diversity it represented, a reflection of the Trinity, has been replaced by modern approaches that promote either unity or diversity, to the detriment of each. Resources here provide a good grounding in the great works that conjoin the good, the true, and the beautiful. |
Classical schools
A Classical curriculum and pedagogy have both been replaced by inferior and destructive substitutes. Classical schools seek to repair the ruins by knowing God aright, instructing in wisdom and delighting in God's goodness.
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The distorted imageSince the Enlightenment, both the human and the humanities have departed from the imago Dei in two directions: 1) transhumanism, which tends towards Gnosticism.
2) posthumanism, which tends towards panentheism. |