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In what ways are human beings creatures?

Brent talks with Brian Brock about his Baker Books book ‘Joining Creation’s Praise: A Theological Ethic of Creatureliness’.

Brian holds a personal Chair in Moral and Political Theology.  He joined the University of Aberdeen following postdoctoral studies at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nurnberg and a doctorate in Christian Ethics at King’s College London. Brian is the author of a number of books. 

• (0:50) Humans as creatures;
• (1:40) Feeling at home;
• (2:45) Is creation all there is?
• (3:35) The church complicit in secularization?
• (4:50) Psalm 33 and creatureliness;
• (6:00) Genesis and Israel;
• (7:15) Creatureliness in Genesis;
• (8:45) Knowing creation in a creaturely manner;
• (10:50) Listening to God in certain ways;
• (13:40) Map-making accounts of the Christian faith;
• (16:00) Transformed creatures;
• (18:30) Freedom as creatures;
• (19:30) The Holy Spirit and creatures.

Links mentioned in this episode:

www.amazon.com.au/Joining-Creations-Praise-Theological-Creatureliness/dp/1540963268

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