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Body, Soul, and Human Life: The Nature of Humanity in the Bible is unavailable, but you can change that!

Are humans composed of a material body and an immaterial soul? This view is commonly held by Christians, yet it has been undermined by recent developments in neuroscience. How much of Christian theology is built on views of humanity that modern science has proved to be untenable? Exploring what Scripture and theology teach about issues such as being in the divine image, the importance of...

humanity developed in Rudolf Bultmann’s New Testament Theology, published 60 years ago.7 Bultmann’s work encompassed some six hundred pages, with almost one-third of the project devoted to humanity; this alone belies the importance of this topic in his rendering of NT theology. Another measure of the importance of anthropology for Bultmann is his location of such theological issues as God’s righteousness, grace, the death and resurrection of Christ, and the church as subcategories of a theology of
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