Kropp, själ och uppståndelse En komparativ studie av en substansdualistisk, och konstitutionell syn på själen

Abstract

Abstract

This paper examines two theories on the subject Body, Soul and Resurrection. This is a comparative literature study about the Substansdualistic, and the Constitutional view explained by two philosophers, Stewart Goetz and Kevin Corcoran, who represent the two theories. The two philosophers are Christians and refer to the Bible for verification of their thesis, though they both admit that the Bible is not a scientific source. Using literature and essays of their own discussions towards each other, i try to explain the main differences on their views of body, soul and resurrection. The substansdualistic and the constitutional view are theories that are somehow opposite, and the two philosophers’ try to explain the soul, body and the resurrection and how the Bible may offer some solution and justify the matter, and even though they use more or less the same passages they have different views and interpretations. The view on the resurrected body is the main difference, where the constitutional view explains that the body has to be numerically identic in the resurrection as it was in the moment of death but also how the soul are being formed, and exists because of the body’s (identic) material. The substansdualistic view explains that the body and soul is two different substances and are therefore not dependent on each other, and the soul can exist without a numerically identic body. Both philosophers means that the Bible is not a scientific scripture, and is not be used to verify the theories, but is resonant with the biblical teachings and the ontology of humans.