Date
12-2012
Department
Rawlings School of Divinity
Degree
Master of Divinity (MDiv)
Chair
Dan Mitchell
Primary Subject Area
Anthropology, Cultural; Religion, General; Religion, Philosophy of
Keywords
Anthropology, Apologetics, Pannenberg, Theology
Disciplines
Anthropology | Christianity | Comparative Methodologies and Theories | Religion | Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Recommended Citation
Dickson, Jeffrey R., "Anthropological Apologetics: A Proposal of an Anthropological Compendium as Evidence for the Imago Dei" (2012). Masters Theses. 250.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/masters/250
Abstract
Evangelical scholarship has shown great admiration for the work of Gary Habermas and others in their contribution to Christian apologetics by validating the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus Christ with a list of minimal facts generally agreed to by historical and biblical scholars. This thesis will explore the methodology of the minimal facts approach and appropriate it as a tool to explore the data within the field of anthropology which offers evidence for the biblical concept of the Imago Dei. This study will focus on Wolfhart Pannenberg in his critically acclaimed work demonstrating the importance of the theological perspective in scientific anthropological studies. Here, it will be shown that data, as generally interpreted by scholars within the field of anthropology, exists to offer significant support to the biblical concept of the image of God.
Included in
Anthropology Commons, Christianity Commons, Comparative Methodologies and Theories Commons, Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion Commons
