conception of the person as a psychosomatic unity. Nor can Christian theology endorse the view that immortality is an intrinsic property of the soul or that survival of death is the natural outcome of human existence. God alone is immortal by nature, whereas God’s creatures are finite and subject to death. Originating with *Athanasius (De Incarnatione 3–4), there has been some debate about whether human mortality is a consequence of the *fall or whether human beings even in their prelapsarian state