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Hello, friends. Welcome to OnScript. This is Amy Brown Hughes, a co-host for the podcast with

Matt Lynch, Matt Bates, Aaronheim, Drew Johnson, and Chris Tilling. Today I have the pleasure of

speaking with Joshua Ferris. No, not that Joshua Ferris, the decorated competitive figure

skater that I found when I googled our guest for today, although I'm sure he's fascinating. We're talking with Dr. Joshua R. Ferris, the Chester

and Margaret Pollock professor at Mundeline Seminary at the University of St. Mary of the Lake,

a beautiful campus, by the way, and on my list of favorite libraries. He's also part-time lecture

at Auburn University, Montgomery, Alabama,

and he was a visiting fellow at the Creation Project at the Carl F.H. Henry Center for Theological

Understanding at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and formerly assistant professor of theology

at Houston Baptist University. Thanks to Baker Academic for sending me a copy of Joshua's Hot Off the Press's book,

an introduction to theological anthropology, humans, both creaturely and divine, published earlier in 2020.

What Joshua has done here is offer us an introduction to the huge topic of theological anthropology.

It's an area he's familiar with, having published

his monograph, the soul of theological anthropology, a Cartesian exploration, and having co-edited

several volumes on the subject. With an introduction to theological anthropology, Joshua offers us

an examination of the major topics in the discipline from a reformed Catholic perspective.

I'll let him explain what he means and what this particular traditional perspective

brings to the table on this topic. If this particular tradition is a familiar lens for

theological anthropology to you, I'm delighted we get to talk about it. If this particular

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