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Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and the Monism-Dualism Debate is unavailable, but you can change that!

John Cooper writes in the preface to this volume, “Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting was written to remind thoughtful Christians that some sort of “dualistic” anthropology is entailed by the biblical teaching of the intermediate state, a doctrine that is affirmed by the vast majority in historic Christianity. The book makes the case that as Holy Scripture progressively discloses what happens to...

But that is because God has created it as a simple spiritual substance. Given this qualification, Augustine considers the Platonic argument that the soul is by nature immortal to be correct after all. For simple substances do not decompose. The soul survives bodily death. The body is created from matter and thus tends toward degeneration unless prevented by God. The resurrection body, however, will live forever. Augustine’s anthropology is a two-substance dualism. Human beings are composed of spirit
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