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For two millennia Christians have been caring for souls. Since the Enlightenment, though, the Christian concept of the soul has been usurped by modern and postmodern notions of the self. “Somehow we misplaced the soul even as we developed a thriving science of the psyche,” lament the editors of this volume. Thus there is a clash between Western therapeutic culture and the church’s understanding...

Anthropology Question 2: Are human beings, and is the sin that afflicts us, of such a nature that interventions grounded in human wisdom and effort can add anything constructive to our state? The unitary character of human nature. Whether we accept the dualistic distinction between body and soul, the trichotomous distinction among body, soul and spirit, or some other delineation of the various components of human nature, our essential nature is found in the unity of those constituent elements. On
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