... many twentieth century Christian thinkers are tem! pted toward some such notion as this. For it is quite clear, both in Scripture and tradition, that classical dualism is not t he Christian position. For example, the biblical viewer is not that the soul is the essence of the person and is only ... unities of body and soul. And the notion that the body is essentially evil and must be escaped from (an idea often associated with versions of classical dualism) eras condemned by virtually every orthodox Christian thinker who discussed death and res urrection in the first two hundred years a...

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