What is the most urgent doctrinal issue for Christians to wrestle with today?

Our guest today, Katie McCoy, believes it is the doctrine of humanity and I tend to agree.

She has co-written a wonderful new book. humanity and I tend to agree.

She has co-written a wonderful new book called Humanity, and she is here to discuss what it means

to be made in the image of God to be male and female and many more pivotal questions tied to human nature.

I'm your host Sean McDowell,

and this is Think Biblically, brought to by Talbot School Theology

Biola University.

Katie, we had you on before to talk about your book on what is a woman.

So it's wonderful to have you back to take a step back and take a 30,000 foot view on humanity as a whole.

Hey Sean, thank you so much for having to be back.

It's great to be here.

So you have me right in the introduction when you and your co-author said, quote,

there is perhaps, and I love you said perhaps, no doctrine more. said,

perhaps, no doctrine more urgent for today's Christians to study

than the doctrine of humanity.

Tell us about that.

So it's important to remember first there is no such thing as a disconnected doctrine.

That's part of why we do systematic theology is that they are all linked inextricably so and they are all linked, inextricably so, and they are domino-affected by the other ones.

So we're not isolating the doctrine of humanity when we say that, but just as for the early church fathers it was the

doctrine of Christ, for the reformers it was the doctrine of salvation. Here at this era in

church history the doctrine of humanity is the one where we are having the most

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