The Constituent Elements of Human Nature Man, uniquely situated among the various created orders, is also unique as to his nature. He is material or body, true enough, in the sense that he possesses a physical body. But the witness of Scripture is that man is more than simply a material body. Christians have interpreted this witness in several different ways.2 Monism (“Whole Man”) I will begin with G. C. Berkouwer’s view of the “whole man.”3 Berkouwer argues that “humanness” in the Bible is