What Is A Human Being? Reflections On Psalm 8

Abstract

“Implicit in every proposal about humankind is a diagnosis of the human predicament and a doctrine for its salvation. It is difficult to enter a serious discussion with anyone without hearing the overtones of these proposals. The sciences concerned with humankind have by and large preempted the place in general consciousness that was held in previous centuries by metaphysics, a portentous shift for theology and preaching whose effects are all about us.”