What Is a Human Being, Anyway?
Recently I have been preoccupied with the question of anthropology. I am convinced that so many of the issues of our day—for example, gender, sexuality, artificial intelligence, IVF, and surrogacy—all point back to the question raised in Psalm 8, “What is man?” The psalmist poses the question of human significance as a motive for doxological wonder. In our day, it has become an expression of paradoxical confusion.