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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...

concentrated treatments of NT anthropology in recent years, Udo Schnelle is able to critique Bultmann on this very point without finding dualism in Paul. Even though “a person has a body and is a body” (a self-evident emendation of Bultmann’s dictum, “man does not have a soma; he is soma”), Schnelle writes, Paul nevertheless “uses σῶμα as the comprehensive expression of the human self.”18 And in an extensive examination of Paul’s Anthropological Terms, published in 1971, Robert Jewett undermined
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