Sentences with phrase «if immortality of the soul»

If immortality of the soul is the case of the immortal soul freed from the body, we might have expected a more Socratic Jesus.

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If we view the soul as an effective social system for the procurement of intense experience, we can legitimately apply to it Whitehead's statement in «Immortality» that «the more effective social systems involve a large infusion of various soils of personalities as subordinate elements in their make - up — for example, an animal body, or a society of animals, such as human beings» (IMM 690).

The instrument may perish but the tune survives and, as it is often argued by those who would attempt to bring «immortality of the soul» and some residual meaning of «resurrection'together into a single conception, that tune might very well be played on another instrument if one does not accept the idea that tunes can exist, so to say, without any expression through some instrumentality.

It will be the occasion for the rejoining, in some fashion, of soul and body, if the notion of immortality of the soul has been entertained.

Moreover, if the personal immortality of the soul is effected by God and God alone, then the resurrection of the body in its immortal dimension would also be God's act.

The whole thought of the New Testament remains for us a book sealed with seven seals if we do not read behind every sentence there this other sentence: Death has already been overcome (death, be it noted, not the body); there is already a new creation (a new creation, be it noted, not an immortality which the soul has always possessed) the resurrection age is already inaugurated.

If I were to make those critical comments, I should be obliged to say something at this point about the way in which this notion of the soul's immortality is very doubtfully found in the Scriptures and how it is an importation into Christian thinking from elsewhere.

If we were to ask an ordinary Christian today (whether well - read Protestant or Catholic, or not) what he conceived to be the New Testament teaching concerning the fate of man after death, with few eceptions we should get the answer: «The immortality of the soul.»

If you affirm immortality of the soul, you make Easter superfluous.

I am well aware of the hangover of vague religiosity which wants to maintain some such «immortality of the soul», as if there were part of each of us, and the most important part, that did not undergo death.