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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...

Calvin does not consider himself a philosopher. He adopts this position because he believes it is embedded in Scripture, both in the biblical language of body and soul and in its teaching about the afterlife. But he is also willing to use philosophical arguments in defense of the metaphysical body-soul distinction and the soul’s immortality.16 Calvin’s doctrine of personal eschatology is that immediately after death the souls of believers enjoy rest and fellowship with Christ until their resurrection
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