Week 5-Bevans, Chapter 5 (The Anthropological Model)

The anthropological model is defined as a model in which it gravitates towards finding and understanding of personal human meaning and relationships. Further, it desires to find social structures implemented within a particular culture and seeks to find a subject's identity. I think to adequately understand cultures, societies, and even meaning, the anthropological model would be helpful and bring us one step closer to understanding humanity. For Christ to be proclaimed in any culture we need to have a holistic view of the culture and understand the anthropos, the person or the people within that culture. How can we have a significant impact on a person's life if we don't desire to have a relationship with them? So that we can connect them with God's story. Humanity deserves to be known, to be needed, and to be loved. We (humanity) all have questions, concerns, and hurts, so God's people need to ready to be sent out in the name of Jesus for the anthropos.