The Mind/Body Problem In Biblical Perspective, By Dr. Greg Bahnsen.
Evangelical Christians have often been trapped by a picture in thinking about man's constitution, a picture which, because of its inappropriateness, has led to many an "anthropological headache." That picture of man which so often captures Christians has been vividly dubbed by Gilbert Ryle as the "the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine,"[1] a picture suggesting that man is made up of two different kinds of substance: matter and immaterial. The latter is looked upon as the operator of man's body which "evaporates" to heaven at the time of death (commonly denominated "the immortal soul"). So renown, a theologian as Charles Hodge did not flinch in propounding the doctrine of substantival dualism....
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I haven't read it yet (unless I've read it before and forgotten I've read it, which is possible), but from the looks of it this is yet another great example of why Greg Bahnsen is my favorite theologian/philosopher of all time.
Tuesday, May 13, 2003
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