This movement first developed within Christianity during the earliest days of the church and has been rejected by the church as heresy, in part because it dilutes the incarnation of Christ. Gnosticism, Allison argued, considers spiritual realities as inherently good and physical realities as inherently evil. The lecture, titled “Four Theses on Human Embodiment,” was delivered in the historic Broadus Chapel, which was filled to capacity with students, faculty, and staff of Southern Seminary.Īllison, who is Professor of Christian Theology at Southern Seminary, said a robust theology of embodiment (having, being in, or being associated with a body) has become as important as ever with the resurgence of gnosticism and neo-gnosticism in the modern church. Allison during a faculty lecture at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, September 4. God designed human beings to live fully embodied lives as the proper state of their existence, argued theology professor Gregg R.
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