This may sound like a crock, but it's not. "Anthropology" in a religious (Christian) sense has been around for a very long time. In fact it used to be that Christian theological treatises were divided up in similar ways as the writer here suggests -- a section on God (theology) or the Trinity (theology, Christology, pneumatology; "pneuma" = Greek for "spirit" or "breath"); a section on the nature of human beings (anthropology); a section on salvation (soteriology; "soter" = Greek for "savior"); a section on creation (cosmology); and a section on the end times or "last things" (eschatology; "eschaton" = Greek for "last").

It still might sound like a crock, I guess, but it's not something th...

This may sound like a crock, but it's not. "Anthropology" in a religious (Christian) sense has been around for a very long time. In fact it used to be that Christian theological treatises were divided up in similar ways as the writer here suggests -- a section on God (theology) or the Trinity (theology, Christology, pneumatology; "pneuma" = Greek for "spirit" or "breath"); a section on the nature of human beings (anthropology); a section on salvation (soteriology; "soter" = Greek for "savior"); a section on creation (cosmology); and a section on the end times or "last things" (eschatology; "eschaton" = Greek for "last").

It still might sound like a crock, I guess, but it's not something that the authors of this website pulled out of thin air. In other words, "Christian anthropology" doesn't refer to a Christian version of what most modern people call "anthropology" but is actually something totally different, namely a very old branch of religious thought.