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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...

allow questions to surface that might otherwise have remained buried. Reading biblical texts through this prism, what do we find in these texts that would otherwise have remained veiled? To many Christians, the range of possible ways of giving an account of the human person may be surprising, and the assumptions and vocabulary that characterize the discussion can be bewildering, if not overwhelming. This would come as a surprise to mid-twentieth-century readers of one of the early
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