Welcome to the conversations that matter of podcast. I'm your host John Harris once again for a discussion

that I think will be interesting for all of you.

It touches on some of the things that I've been talking about regarding social justice and race as a social

construct, gender as a social construct, all these things we're hearing from more

postmodern types in our society.

But it also affects those who would,

or I guess answers those who would say that all those things

are not just social constructs, know they're biologically rooted and that's all they are.

And we know that neither of those options are really true and as Christians we need to

understand who we are as humans.

What are we as corporate bodies as groups,

but what are we more importantly also as individuals,

as selves?

And to discuss this with... individuals as selves.

And to discuss this with me is Joshua Ferris.

He has agreed to join the podcast to talk about his new book, The Creation of the self.

Joshua is a humble research fellow.

He is a visiting lecturer at a number of universities.

He went to Southern Seminary where he got his MDive

and the University of Bristol, where he has a PhD in theology and you can get his book on

Amazon and you can also purchase it if you go to the publisher directly at John Hunt Publishing.com and use the

promo code Ferris 23 that's a capital F Ferris 23 and you can get a 20% discount on the ebook there if you want to purchase his book there.

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