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Creating a Christian faith-based approach to anthropology, incorporating insights from theology into ethnography and analysis, and allowing religiously committed anthropologists to speak freely of the ways in which their commitments inform their theory and practice. Raising new questions and lines of research on subjects such as: the significance of humanity's unique calling in nature for personhood and the construction of culture; the underlying reasons for humanity's destructive behavior toward self, others, and the environment; and the role that divine redemption and hope play in human lived experience and practice. Reincorporating teleology, in the sense of purpose, into scientific understanding, inviting dialogue between anthropologists and theologians of all persuasions into a deeper understanding of the human condition, and encouraging the doing of (Accessed April 7, 2021), but the same idea appears to be present in most American University statements of community standards. Yale University, for example, defines "sexual misconduct" as "any sexual activity for which positive, unambiguous, and voluntary consent has not been given in advance" [http://catalog.yale.edu/undergraduate-regulations/offenses/ (Accessed April 7, 2021).2 https://policy.byu.edu/view/index.php?p=26 (Accessed March 23, 2021).3 https://policies.catholic.edu/students/studentlife/studentconduct/assault.html (Accessed March 23, 2021).