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Flawed Perfection: What It Means to Be Human and Why It Matters for Culture, Politics, and Law is unavailable, but you can change that!

From exploitation and violence to decisions about how to wisely govern or care for human life, the problems humanity faces aren’t just abstract issues—they impact the day-to-day lives of many individuals and communities across the globe. How should Christians wrestle with these complex and difficult problems in a thoughtful, ethical way? According to Jeffrey A. Brauch, we need to start with an...

humans are made in God’s image. Deuteronomy 25 records that a guilty person was to be beaten with the number of lashes his crime deserved, but there was an outer limit: “Forty stripes may be given him, but not more, lest, if one should go on to beat him with more stripes than these, your brother will be degraded in your sight” (Deut 25:3). Why did God insist that punishment not degrade the convicted criminal? Because even the criminal bears God’s image. The New Testament carries this principle into
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