A comprehensive treatise on the soul. Its substance, attributes, origin, and final destiny. Tertullian argues that the soul is corporeal, in opposition to the Gnostics, and Plato, with whom (he believes) the Gnostic heresies originated. He critiques pagan philosophers and writers on various opinions about the soul, and strives to ground beliefs on the Scripture. Stoics’ Arguments for Corporeal Soul Zeno, defining the soul to be a spirit generated with […]
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Origen: Immortality and Incarnation
Immortality of the Body Jesus Christ Himself, who is the Lord and Creator of the soul, is said to be the clothing of the saints, “Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ.”(Rom.13;14) As Christ, then, is the clothing of the soul, so is the soul said to be the clothing of the body, seeing it is an ornament to it, covering and concealing its mortal nature…a soul possessing in itself […]
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