Psalm 8:4-6 records:

"What is man that you are mindful of him,
the son of man that you care for him?
You made him a little lower than God
and crowned him with glory and honor.
You made him ruler over the works of your hands;
you put everything under his feet..."

The branch of theology devoted to the study of the human race is labeled "anthropology", though it has little, if anything to do with the scientific study of humanity which goes by the same term. One definition of this theological topic is, "the examination of the origin, nature, and destiny of the human race from the perspective of its relationship to God." Perhaps a better way of looking at it is to say that anthropology is the study of the eternal questions of life: "Who am I?", "Why am I here?", and "Where am I going?" These three questions will form the basic outline of our study of people.

A COMPARISON OF THE CONCEPT OF THE IMAGE OF GOD IN MAN IN EVANGELICAL THEOLOGY OF THE 1980'S AND THE 1990'S WITH A STRICTLY BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION - A Thesis of the Professional Project Presented to the Faculty of the Grace Theological Seminary -  by Benjamin Cocar, May, 1999.

ANTHROPOLOGY: THE DOCTRINE OF MAN, by Gary E. Gilley, Pastor-teacher, Southern View Chappel, (please visit Pastor Gary at http://www.svchapel.org/svchapel.html ) 

ANTHROPOLOGY: THE STUDY of MAN, By Stanford Murrell

AUGUSTINE AND THE DOCTRINE OF MAN, courtesy of The Free Church of Scotland at: http://www.freechurch.org

PAULINE ANTHROPOLOGY, courtesy of Atlantic Baptist University at: http://www.abu.nb.ca

FREE WILL, by A.A. Hodge, courtesy of The Highway Ministry at: http://www.the-highway.com 

TOTAL DEPRAVITY, by Loraine Boettner, courtesy of The Highway Ministry at: http://www.the-highway.com 

Adam's Fall and Mine - R.C. Sproul, courtesy of The Highway Ministry at: http://www.the-highway.com 

Human Freedom - G.C. Berkouwer, courtesy of The Highway Ministry at: http://www.the-highway.com 

THE DECEITFULNESS OF THE HEART, by David Black. Courtesy of Grace Online Library at: www.graceonlinelibrary.org   

THE HUMANISM OF ARMINIANISM, by Oscar B. Mink. Courtesy of www.pbministries.org

The Doctrine of "Total Depravity", by John G. Reisinger. Courtesy of Rich Turner and Rich's Home Page of Reformed Theology at: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/9170/index.html

HUMAN INABILITY by Charles Spurgeon, 1858. Courtesy of "The Spurgeon Archive" at http://www.spurgeon.org

Pelagianism: The Religion of Natural Man - By Michael S. Horton. Cicero observed of his own civilization that people thank the gods for their material prosperity, but never for their virtue, for this is their own doing. Princeton theologian B. B. Warfield considered Pelagianism "the rehabilitation of that heathen view of the world," and concluded with characteristic clarity, "There are fundamentally only two doctrines of salvation: that salvation is from God, and that salvation is from ourselves. The former is the doctrine of common Christianity; the latter is the doctrine of universal heathenism." (courtesy of http://www.modernreformation.org)