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An Immaterial Substance View: Imago Dei in Creation and Redemption

An Immaterial Substance View: Imago Dei in Creation and Redemption HeyJ LVIII (2017), pp. 108–123 AN IMMATERIAL SUBSTANCE VIEW: IMAGO DEI IN CREATION AND REDEMPTION JOSHUA R. FARRIS* Houston Baptist University ‘At the resurrection, then, when human nature will be transformed into an immortal nature, the transformation will be in the inner quality of the human being. Both body and soul will be changed, but the change will be constituted by a divinely wrought modification of the soul.’ (Peter Burnell, The Augustinian Person, page 42) ‘For although God’s glory shines forth in the outer man, yet there is no doubt that the proper seat of his image is in the soul.’ (Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book I, chapter XV.3) I will favourably describe mind-body dualism with a rich property/attribute as a persuasive accounting of the scripture’s narration of human beings as images of God. Mind-body dualism is the view that there are two kinds of things, namely body and soul/mind, and that humans are comprised of souls and bodies—a view commensurate with both Medieval and Reformation views of humans. By drawing from the narrative of human beings as images I show that souls, which bear rich properties/attributes, offer one way to account for the Christian story. I http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Heythrop Journal Wiley

An Immaterial Substance View: Imago Dei in Creation and Redemption

The Heythrop Journal , Volume 58 (1) – Jan 1, 2017

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0018-1196
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1468-2265
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HeyJ LVIII (2017), pp. 108–123 AN IMMATERIAL SUBSTANCE VIEW: IMAGO DEI IN CREATION AND REDEMPTION JOSHUA R. FARRIS* Houston Baptist University ‘At the resurrection, then, when human nature will be transformed into an immortal nature, the transformation will be in the inner quality of the human being. Both body and soul will be changed, but the change will be constituted by a divinely wrought modification of the soul.’ (Peter Burnell, The Augustinian Person, page 42) ‘For although God’s glory shines forth in the outer man, yet there is no doubt that the proper seat of his image is in the soul.’ (Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book I, chapter XV.3) I will favourably describe mind-body dualism with a rich property/attribute as a persuasive accounting of the scripture’s narration of human beings as images of God. Mind-body dualism is the view that there are two kinds of things, namely body and soul/mind, and that humans are comprised of souls and bodies—a view commensurate with both Medieval and Reformation views of humans. By drawing from the narrative of human beings as images I show that souls, which bear rich properties/attributes, offer one way to account for the Christian story. I

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