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Body, Soul, and (Holy) Spirit: Karl Barth's Theological Framework for Understanding Human Ontology
Author(s) -
CORTEZ MARC
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
international journal of systematic theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.149
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1468-2400
pISSN - 1463-1652
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2400.2008.00328.x
Subject(s) - monism , ontology , soul , philosophy , epistemology , argument (complex analysis) , dualism , mind–body problem , theology , medicine
  Interpretations of Karl Barth's anthropological ontology are often characterized by significant disagreement as to whether it is best understood in essentially dualist or monist terms. Such arguments are misguided in that they miss the thrust of Barth's argument. This article will show that Barth's christological understanding of the mind–body relationship generates a number of important ontological implications, which can in turn serve as a basis for developing a christologically adequate mind/body theory, but that it does not provide the actual development of such a theory.

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