to introducing their respective positions and attendant vocabulary. By way of anticipating those more expansive discussions, it may be helpful to provide some linguistic and conceptual orientation. Arranged along a continuum, perspectives championed today can be characterized as more or less materialist, more or less dualist. On the extreme poles are two positions, (reductive) materialism and radical dualism, both of which are difficult to square with Christian theological commitments. Dispersed
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