Materialist Neuroscientists and the Immortal Soul: A Theological Response Shaped by the Magisterium of the Catholic Church
- ISBN-10
- 0567379760
- ISBN-13
- 9780567379764
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-07-18
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury T&T Clark
- Author
- John O'Leary
Description
Certain materialist neuroscientists claim their research shows that human beings do not have a spiritual soul capable of existing separated from the body after death. A number of Christian scholars reply that this is no challenge to Christian belief. Why? Because Christian faith does not require believers to hold that human nature includes a spiritual soul, still less one that exists separated from the body between death and resurrection. This book examines whether Catholics may share this view. O'Leary examines numerous Magisterial statements, arguing that they cannot be interpreted as containing no binding teaching that the human person has an immortal soul which exists separated from the body between death and resurrection. The separated state of the soul is at the heart of God's graceful work of salvation in and through history. It thereby offers a theological response to materialist neuroscientists who judge the hypothesis that humans have spiritual souls capable of conscious existence separated from the body after death to be most improbable.
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