Sentences with phrase «natural immortality of the soul»

Man does not possess natural immortality of the soul.

Some theologians today prefer not to use the term «immortality» when they speak of the future life, lest the Greek idea of the natural immortality of the soul be suggested by it.

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At the time Thornton had closely read The Concept of Nature (1920) and Principles of Natural Knowledge (2d edition, 1925), tended to interpret Science and the Modern World (1925) in line with these earlier works, and was acquainted with Religion in the Making (1926) though somewhat unsure what to make of its doctrine of God.2 He took comfort in Whitehead's remark concerning the immortality of the soul, and evidently wanted to apply it to all theological issues: «There is no reason why such a question should not be decided on more special evidence, religious or otherwise, provided that it is trustworthy.

The widespread misunderstanding that the New Testament teaches the immortality of the soul was actually encouraged by the rock - like post-Easter conviction of the first disciples that the bodily Resurrection of Christ had robbed death of all its horror, (But hardly in such a way that the original Christian community could speak of «natural» dying.

Similarly, when Christian theologians like Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory the Great, and Thomas Aquinas affirm the soul's natural immortality, they do so from within the horizon of Omega immortality: our nature itself is a gift; it's a gift all the way down.