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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...

that the eschatological imagery of Luke 16:19–31 is theologically relevant as well.34 More broadly, Cooper’s treatment of the Lukan texts is shaped by two interrelated and far-reaching presumptions. The first is that, in the “intertestamental period” (i.e., the period of Second Temple Judaism), testimony to an intermediate state was ubiquitous. The second is that this intermediate state was conceived in a common way across Jewish literature of this era. Cooper also imagines that the belief system
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