How Is Personhood Political | Anthony Bradley

The Henry Center Archive

Lecture Title: Lost in Policy? The Person Beyond Public and Social Utility Contemporary Christian debates about public policy tend to rely on simply reading one’s preferred political views into Scripture. Often lost in the conversation, are the very people themselves. Drawing on resources from the tradition of Christian social thought, Bradley will call us to a vision of the human person ordered in Creation. This alternative understanding of personhood offers Evangelicals an opportunity to transcend the binaries and idols of “left” vs. “right” and to promote the basic social, political, and economic structures that lead to human flourishing. Anthony B. Bradley (PhD Westminster Theological Seminary) is Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Human Flourishing at The King’s College. He is also Distinguished Research Fellow at the Acton Institute. He is author or editor of multiple books, including Aliens in the Promised Land: Why Minority Leadership is Overlooked in White Christian Churches and Institutions (P&R, 2013), Ending Overcriminalization and Mass Incarceration: Hope from Civil Society (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and Faith in Society: 13 Profiles of Christians Adding Value to the Modern World (Resource, 2019). The Henry Center for Theological Understanding provides theological resources that help bridge the gap between the academy and the church. It houses a cluster of initiatives, each of which is aimed at applying practical Christian wisdom to important kingdom issues—for the good of the church, for the soul of the theological academy, for the sake of the world, and ultimately for the glory of God. The HCTU seeks to ground each of these initiatives in Scripture, and it pursues these goals collaboratively, in order to train a new generation of wise interpreters of the Word—lay persons and scholars alike—for the sake of tomorrow’s church, academy, and world.

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