The contact with Zoroastrianism, which was the dominant religion within the Achaemenid Empire founded by Cyrus the Great, as well as Hellenic thought led to incorporation
of religious ideas from those cultures into Judaism, including the
development of notions
of an immaterial
and immortal
soul distinct from the
body and a moralized afterlife.
What he finds an impediment to men is the later
development in which «the individual Christian,
body and soul, came to be seen as the bride
of Christ.»
In as much as this view sees
body and soul as distinct but complementary it is harmonious with the approach fostered by Faith movement (e.g. March 2008 editorial: Body and Soul - Rediscovering Catholic Orthodoxy) but Ward's approach falls short of the Catholic understanding of the soul as being immediately created by God, rather than «emerging» from a gradual process of complex developm
body and soul as distinct but complementary it is harmonious with the approach fostered by Faith movement (e.g. March 2008 editorial: Body and Soul - Rediscovering Catholic Orthodoxy) but Ward's approach falls short of the Catholic understanding of the soul as being immediately created by God, rather than «emerging» from a gradual process of complex developm
soul as distinct but complementary it is harmonious with the approach fostered by Faith movement (e.g. March 2008 editorial:
Body and Soul - Rediscovering Catholic Orthodoxy) but Ward's approach falls short of the Catholic understanding of the soul as being immediately created by God, rather than «emerging» from a gradual process of complex developm
Body and Soul - Rediscovering Catholic Orthodoxy) but Ward's approach falls short of the Catholic understanding of the soul as being immediately created by God, rather than «emerging» from a gradual process of complex developm
Soul - Rediscovering Catholic Orthodoxy) but Ward's approach falls short
of the Catholic understanding
of the
soul as being immediately created by God, rather than «emerging» from a gradual process of complex developm
soul as being immediately created by God, rather than «emerging» from a gradual process
of complex
development.