Here is a link to a talk by Malcolm Jeeves that deals
with the concept of the soul in light of
neuropsychology:
http://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/cis/jeeves/index.html
In Jeeves' and Berry's book Science, Life and
Christian Belief, they discuss use of the term soul in
Old and New Testament's quite a bit. Joel Green has
written about this both in the Christians in Science
journal and I think elsewhere on the use of the term
soul by authors in the New and Old Testaments. It
makes interesting reading.
--- Walter Hicks <wallyshoes@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>
> Dr. Blake Nelson wrote:
>
> > In many areas, good scholarly research points out
> that
> > our current, popular interpretation of Holy
> Scripture
> > might not be what was intended by those who wrote
> > those pieces of scripture. For example, you
> refer to
> > the immortal soul. While there is great debate
> about
> > what "soulishness" means, there is a very well
> > supported line of scholarly research regarding
> the
> > understanding of the Old and New Testaments that
> > contends that an immortal soul, as some
> independent,
> > non-material substance, added to our otherwise
> > material makeup is not supported by the Holy
> > Scriptures. Yet, these theologians and scholars
> of
> > the Old and New Testament retain their Christian
> and
> > creedal hope in the resurrection of the body.
> None of
> > the creeds say that a belief in an immortal soul
> is a
> > foundational belief of Christianity. Indeed, the
> > arguments of these scholars focuse on the fact
> that
> > the immortal soul is a Greek philosophical graft
> onto
> > Christian theology.
>
> Now that is imteresting --- and surprising.. I did
> a word search for
> soul and it sounds like the the OT tends to use it
> as a synonym for a
> person. But the NT definitly seems to speak of a
> soul as someything
> which we posess and which is more important than the
> body -- like it is
> not agood idea to loose it. Also there seems to be a
> definite connection
> to immoprtalirty in some of the verses --- but only
> as related to Jesus
> Christ.
>
> Walt
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