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In Search of the Soul: Four Views of the Mind-Body Problem is unavailable, but you can change that!

Many Christians assume that it is biblically faithful and noncontroversial to speak of having a soul. Yet a wide range of biblical scholars today are questioning whether we have correctly understood what the Bible means when it speaks of the soul. On top of this, contemporary neuroscience is laying more and more questions at the doorstep of the church, asking whether our human sense of self is...

Science must be taken seriously, first, on account of our doctrine of creation. This means that, for the Christian, inquiry starts not from “science,” but from the Christian tradition in its understanding of nature in its creatureliness. Of course, until the modern era, there was no need for navigating science-theology relations, since science, philosophy and religion composed the same vocation, proceeded from the same intellectual impulses and focused on the same subject matter. On account of the
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