Christ & Flourishing

We live in a time of contested humanity. Underneath our most strident and embattled conversations, lie confusion and anxiety about these fundamentally theological questions:

What does it mean to be human?

Whose humanity matters?

What kind of life is worthy of our humanity?

The troubling state of current political and cultural discourse reveals the instability and precarity of our ability to grapple with the most difficult questions facing human life. Today’s most prevalent accounts of human flourishing have been caught in paradigms imposed by consumer culture, redirecting interest from the transcendent God to human beings and their mundane affairs, and replacing love of God and neighbor with a self-defeating concern for our own experiential satisfaction. Together, we must turn our attention to exploring an understanding of our humanity and what it means to flourish.