If you’ve read my blog at all, then you know that I’ve done a lot of reading, research, and writing on embodied-souls. For a collation of my writings, see: 90 Free Resources for Counseling the Whole Person: Soul Physicians of Embodied-Souls.
This past week, I’ve been reading Herman Bavinck’s Biblical and Religious Psychology. Bavinck has much to say about embodied-souls. Here are some select quotes from Bavinck on body and soul.
Scripture Is Not Dualistic
“Scripture is by no means dualistic. The psychical and the physical phenomena do not walk parallel to one another without ever affecting one another or having any influence upon one another. Spirit and matter, soul and body, never stand dualistically juxtaposed or opposed to one another. Rather, they are always most intimately related, influencing one another and working together” (Bavinck, Biblical and Religious Psychology, 23).
“Holy Scripture recognizes and maintains the essential distinction between Creator and creature, but knows nothing of an original dualism between spirit and matter. Creation, incarnation, and resurrection adequately prove that spirit and matter, however distinguished, are capable of union and cooperation” (Bavinck, Biblical and Religious Psychology, 61).
“Through the Reformation, the old dualism between spirit and matter, which had entered into Christian theology
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