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1.17 Stephen Wellum, David Schrock • Interview • "Incarnation Versus Excarnation in Culture and Church"
Description
How has Gnosticism—an ancient idea that we must escape our physical bodies—influenced transgenderism, euthanasia, and 120-pound women beating grown men in martial arts movie scenes? And what does a double decker bus have to do with it? Listen in to Stephen Wellum and David Schrock as they discuss P. Andrew Sandlin's hard hitting longform essay.
Timestamps
0:32 - Intro
2:33 – What is incarnation and excarnation?
3:36 – How Hymns Speak of Christ’s Incarnation
5:32 – Excarnation Defined
6:20 – What is Gnosticism?
10:21 – What are ways we have lost the Doctrine of Creation?
12:24 – How does the Doctrine of Creation inform our thinking about the world?
14:18 – Bodies becoming ‘tools’ for the inner man
16:30 – How has our culture impacted the Church through ‘disembodied living’?
19:41 – ‘Cyber’-Disciples
22:02 – A Theology of the Body
24:15 – Glorifying God in an ‘Embodied’ Sense
27:04 – Creation Mandate’s Rejection Impacts Our Culture
30:12 – Celebrating the Incarnation brings us back to a right understanding of the body
35:45 - Outro