This course introduces students to the century’s old tradition of Christian humanism. In this course, we will explore the historical development of Christian humanism and its importance for our views on faith and reason, theology/church and culture, education, the arts, a Judeo-Christian view of personhood, and also for recent discussions concerning the normativity of human nature that arise from technological (AI, transhumanism, and posthumanism), evolutionary, and political developments concerning human rights. The course is designed to show that Christianity contributes fundamentally and essentially to these cultural pressure points. Indeed, evangelicals like Emil Brunner and J.I. Packer, but even more prominently Catholics like Henri de Lubac and Jacques Maritain have argued that Christianity is quintessentially a humanism because of the incarnation. Christianity, to recover a term that has become a theological swear-word, is fundamentally “anthropocentric” because God restored humanity to its originally intended goal of communion with God and stewardship over creation by joining Himself to humanity. The underlying anthropology of Christian humanism is thoroughly rooted in the biblical understanding of God as embraced Israel’s belief in Yahweh that, for Christians, culminates in the New Testament and Pauline Christology: human beings were created for conformity to Christ’s image, the only true eikon of God. In this course we will delineate how this foundation has deeply influenced crucial aspects of Western culture.