It also strikes to the heart of one of those old but increasingly outmoded chicken-or-the-egg questions.  I've had more conversations then I'd care to count surrounding the issue of whether one should begin with theology proper (a doctrine of God) or theological anthropology. It seems to me though — and I hear this in your post — that the boundaries between the two are, for better or worse, more porous and less static than we may be willing to believe.