Sentences with phrase «individual immortality of the soul»

They considered that the major representations of religion — the transcendental personality of God, the uniqueness of Christ, the individual immortality of the soul, etc. were part of its essential content.

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Hartshorne expresses this implied identification of individual immortality with a «soul - substance» when he writes that the notion of an «immortal soul» has «muddled and confused many problems» (CSPM 45).

It could be argued that the Platonic doctrine of the immortality of the soul was simply a refined and highly sophisticated version of that belief in an after - life which had been widespread in the ancient world in one form or another, and which Israel had come almost completely to abandon because of her psychosomatic view of the unity of the human individual.

Spinoza traced this hypothesis to its logical conclusions, pointing out that it left no room whatever for any ideas about chance, free will, or the immortality of individual souls.

For the locus of Omega immortality is not the individual soul per se, but the complete society created by God's love, in which individuality is realized in fellowship.