“soul” are not reducible to brain activity and represent essential aspects or capacities of the self, rather than a substantial, ontological entity such as a “soul.” Two of those models are presented in this book: Murphy’s nonreductive physicalism (chap. 4) and Corcoran’s constitution view of the human person (chap. 5). Although sometimes presumed in popular discussion, a tripartite view of the human person is only rarely found in biblical studies or in the theological literature; according to this