A Creational Theology of Animals, Disability, and Gender: Dr. Brian Brock

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🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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This was a fun one!

Dr. Brian Brock has written a deeply thoughtful theology of creation, which set the foundation for our conversation. As you'll see, we ended up going down several unexpected paths and honestly got me thinking through things I've never considered before.

We talked about what it means to image God, the role gender plays in human creation, and the theological distinctions between humans and animals. Yes, we even wrestled with the question of whether my dog Tank will be with me in heaven.Toward the end of the conversation, we also touched on Dr. Brock’s significant work in the theology of disability,

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Dr. Brian Brock is Professor of Moral and Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He has written scholarly works on the use of the Bible in Christian ethics the ethics of technological development and the theology of disability. He the author of several books including his magnum opus Joining Creation’s Praise: A Theological Ethic of Creatureliness

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0:00.0	We're offering a limited Christmas discount on registration for the Exiles of Babylon Conference,
0:04.6	which is on April 30th and May 2nd, 2026 in Minneapolis.
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0:22.4	forward slash exiles 26. Use promo code X-M-Miss 15. Okay, that's XMAS 15. Again, this 30% off
0:31.4	sale ends December 31st. And I can't wait to see you all there. What the authors are trying to point us to is a whole snowballing of ways in which our refusal
0:42.9	to really recognize others on their own terms spools out into us dominating them.
0:49.5	And I think the Dominion domination is a pairing that the text is trying to draw our attention to.
0:59.2	Hey, friends, the X-Talz and Babylon Conference is happening again in Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 30th, the May 2nd.
1:05.5	We're talking about AI, artificial intelligence. We're talking about immigration of the gospel,
1:10.5	mental health in the gospel.
1:11.9	We're having two dialogical debates this year. The first one is on Christians and War between Paul Copan and Shane Claiborne. And we also have another dialogical debate between Sandy Richter and Pete ends on the historical reliability of the Bible.
1:29.3	I can't wait for this conference.
1:30.6	I know I say that every year, every time.
1:32.4	I'm like, this is going to be the best one ever or whatever, but I think this is going to be the best one ever.
1:37.0	So my guest today back again is Dr. Brian Brock, who is Professor of Moral and practical theology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, my alma mater.
1:47.2	That's where I did my PhD.
1:48.4	Actually, he overlapped a little bit.
1:49.7	I was, I think Brian, Brian got there as a professor a year after I got there as a PhD student.
1:56.7	So we go pretty far back.
1:58.4	He's written scholarly works on the use of the Bible and Christian ethics,
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