Kristin Kobes Du Mez is the author of Jesus and John Wayne, a Calvin University faculty member, and a rising star in progressive circles because of her fight against the patriarchy, being gay-affirming, and seemingly unbothered by taking a billy club to parts of the bible she doesn’t like. We last wrote about her after she announced she was joining a host of ner’ do wells, pagans, and antichrist heretics for the Freedom Rising Conference.
In an episode of the Convocation Unscripted, DuMez explains that Christians have an “impoverished theological discourse” on “ensoulment” (when the sould enters the body) and suggests they need to have more of a 1960’s mindset.
I love to go back to this 1968 special edition of Christianity Today, a whole magazine, a whole issue on contraception and abortion. Read it. It is fascinating. And one of the key pieces there is a theological analysis of ensoulment.
When does the soul enter the body? And how do we understand that? And how do we reconcile this theological question or apply this theological question to what we now know in terms of modern science?
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