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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...

God’s created order, then salvation would of necessity be explicated as fully embodied, as oriented toward human community and as cosmological in scope. “Healing,” in this portrait, could not segregate mind and brain, body and soul, person and community, or human and cosmos, with the result that Christian mission would have to be worked out in terms of practices that promote human recovery in the fullest terms. When it comes to “salvation,” one could speak only of “human needs” and “human wholeness,”
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