Lecture 5 - Body and Soul Flashcards
Man as a “Whole Person”
1) This is the Monist view
2) Person viewed from wholeness and completeness vs. separate parts (body and soul)
3) Body, soul and spirit are simply synonyms
“The man of God is a man in his relation,
from which we may never abstract him.
This is man as he makes his ways through the world,
not enclosed in himself, not independent and autonomous but as man of God.”
1) G. C. Berkouwer, Image of God
2) Relationship (Latin: relationis); Being (Latin: entis)
3) Reduces person to material, doesn’t give emphasis to spiritual
Man as a Body, Soul, and Spirit
1) Trichotomist view
2) Body and spirit are glued together by the soul
3) Emphasizes the spiritual to the neglect of the body
Key texts for Trichotomists: Love God
1) Duet 6
2) Luke 10
3) Matt 22
4) Mark 12
Biblical terms for trichotomy
1) heart (grk. kardia)
2) soul (grk. psyche)
3) strength (grk. ischus)
4) mind (grk. dianoia)
5) understanding (sunesis)
Verses supporting the three divisions
1) 1 Thes. 5 “whole spirit, soul, and body”
2) Heb. 4 “division of the soul and spirit, joints and marrow”
Man as Body and Soul
1) dichotomist view
2) body as a good creation of God
3) Makes distinction but not separation between body & soul
Biblical texts supporting dichotomy
1) Genesis 1 “created”
2) Ecclesiastes 12 “dust/spirit”
3) Matt. 10 “fear him who is able to kill both body and soul”
4) Phil 1 “to live is Christ, to die is gain”
5) Luke 23 “today you will be with me in paradise”
Origin of the Soul
1) Creationism
2) Traducianism (latin; tradux)
3) both within reformed theology
Creationism
1) Soul created & knitted with the body at conception
2) bodies derived from our parents; soul received from God
3) Not entirely helpful for transmission of sin nature
Creationism - Biblical texts
1) Is. 57
2) Zech. 12
3) Heb. 12
4) Ps 139
Traducianism
1) Latin; tradux
2) body & soul generated by natural means of procreation
3) Lutheran view
Traducianism - Biblical texts
1) Gen. 2
2) Rom. 5
