You Are Not Your Own (with Alan Noble)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

Christian, Talbot, Church, Culture, Biola, Think Biblically, Christianity, Sean Mcdowell, Scott Rae, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 7 October 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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What is the fundamental problem at the core of modern society? According to Alan Noble, it is a faulty view of what it means to be human. This dehumanization in modern society leads to stress, loneliness, and often despair. In this episode, Sean and Scott interview Dr. Noble to understand his diagnosis of modern society and learn how a biblical view of humanity can set us free. Dr. Alan Noble is an Associate Professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University. He is the author of multip...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Think Bivocally, Conversations on Faith and Culture, a podcast from Talbot School
0:07.0	Theology by Yale University.
0:09.2	I'm your host, Sean McDowell, Professor of Christian Apologetics.
0:13.0	And I'm your co-host, Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty, and Professor of Christian Ethics.
0:17.0	Today we have with us Dr. Alan Noble, an Associate Professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University and he's written just a fascinating new book that I've really been looking forward to kind of unpacking with him and it's called you are not your own.
0:32.0	Dr. Noble, thanks for taking the time to join us.
0:35.4	Thank you.
0:36.0	And may I just say that that was a very professional start.
0:40.1	I've been on a lot of podcasts,
0:42.4	and that was just so smooth at the intonation
0:45.4	everything delivery perfect that was amazing you're professionals well we've
0:51.0	been practicing it for hours to nail it the one time you came on, so we really appreciate you noticing.
0:57.0	Well, since my quick streamlined intro is gone, Now let's dive in to your book which I thoroughly
1:06.7	enjoyed and let's get right into the meat of it. One of things intrigues me is
1:10.9	you claim that the deepest issues play in our society and
1:14.5	there's a lot of big issues today are grounded in a particular understanding of
1:19.0	what it means to be human tell us about that.
1:21.6	Yeah so that the theory that I'm exploring is the idea that our environment that we're currently living
1:29.1	in, contemporary society is not actually designed for us, designed for us as God made us.
1:35.0	Because it's designed with an incorrect conception of what it means to be human, a bad
1:41.0	anthropology.
1:42.0	And then specifically what I have in mind is there's the assumption that we are fundamentally our own and belong to ourselves and from that assumption come various consequences in the way we conceive of identity,
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