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I was privileged recently to deliver some teaching on what it means to be human to a mission team at a charity. They seemed to enjoy it, so I sent a follow-up email. This blog post offers a few things that I think would be helpful places for people to start reading about what it means to be human from the perspective of Bible and Theology. I’d welcome suggestions in the comments – particularly from non-White\/Western authors, who aren’t represented here (though are to a small extent in my longer Bibliography<\/a>).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Introductory – if you can read this blog, you’ll be comfortable with these books.<\/strong><\/p>\n – John Behr, Becoming Human<\/a> (Eastern Orthodox Scholar) \u2013 superbly simple unpacking of the \u2018becoming\u2019 aspect<\/p>\n – Mark Meynell, What Makes Us Human<\/a> (Evangelical Anglican, working with Langham globally) \u2013 best short readable primer<\/p>\n – Paul Gooder, Body<\/a> (Anglican New Testament scholar) – really helpful on the body, without going off on tangents<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mid-level – if you read this blog regularly, including the longer parts, these should be fine.<\/strong><\/p>\n – Klyne R. Snodgrass, Who God Says You Are<\/a> (American New Testament scholar) \u2013 single best book on human identity I\u2019ve read so far that I can recommend to most people who read.<\/p>\n – Rowan Williams, Being Human<\/a> (Anglican Philosopher\/Theologian) – more philosophical but readable short book.<\/p>\n – Nancy Pearcey, Love Thy Body<\/a> (American evangelical scholar and author, Houston Baptist University [but not a Trump kind of American evangelical!]) \u2013 masterful application of theology of the body to some big issues.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Academic – bit more technical, but generally very readable.<\/strong><\/p>\n – Susan Eastman, Paul and the Person<\/a> (American New Testament Scholar) \u2013 superb look at theological anthropology in the bulk of the NT.<\/p>\n – Gordon McConville, Being Human in God’s World<\/a> (OT Scholar) \u2013 great place to start looking at the OT, this is v. readable.<\/p>\n – Ed. Crisp and Sanders, The Christian Doctrine of Humanity<\/a> (ecumenical academic essay collection. See review for more)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n High Level Academic – either niche or technical, these are more nuanced and academic, but not impenetrable.<\/strong><\/p>\n – Ephraim Radner, A Time to Keep (Canadian Anglican) \u2013 I haven\u2019t finished my review but it\u2019s a superb book.<\/p>\n – Richard Middleton, The Liberating Image<\/a> (American\/Canadian OT Scholar) \u2013 mind-blowingly good on Genesis 1-11. Not reviewed as interacted heavily in MA thesis, but link is to where you can read a related article.<\/p>\n – Richard Lints, Identity and Idolatry<\/a> \u2013 an NSBT Volume, so biblical theology. V concise and helpful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was privileged recently to deliver some teaching on what it means to be human to a mission team at a charity. They seemed to enjoy it, so I sent a follow-up email. This blog post offers a few things … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[87,114,390,86,453],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3444,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions\/3444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}