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The Soul: How We Know It's Real and Why It Matters is unavailable, but you can change that!

In a culture in which science is believed to hold the answers to every question, spiritual realities like the soul are often ignored or ridiculed. We are told that neuroscience holds the key to explaining every aspect of human behavior. Yet Christian philosopher J. P. Moreland argues that Scripture, sound philosophical reasoning, and everyday experience all point to the reality of an immaterial...

matter. Currently, the nature of consciousness and the soul are at the heart of the struggle for the intellectual authority of extra-scientific fields such as theology and the Bible. Second, as the Time article cited above implies, the reality of the soul is important to various ethical issues that crucially involve an understanding of human persons. There is a deep connection between the reality of the human soul and the sort of high, intrinsic value human persons possess, and this is relevant to ethical