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October 28, 2025 25 mins

How has Western thinking encouraged us to believe that we are our own?

Brent talks with Alan Noble about a new paperback edition of his IVP book ‘You Are Not Your Own: Belonging to God in an Inhuman World’.

Alan is associate professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University, a fellow of the Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics, and the author of a number of books and articles.   

  • (1:00) Our inhuman culture;
  • (3:55) Western thinking and individualism;
  • (5:00) The price of individualism;
  • (6:50) Self-justification;
  • (9:45) Technique;
  • (13:40) Christian identity;
  • (16:30) God and our identity;
  • (18:30) Prodigality;
  • (21:55) Representing Christ in our communities.

Links mentioned in this episode:

www.amazon.com/You-Are-Not-Your-Own/dp/151401095X

www.oalannoble.com

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