Such a view will doubtless be based on some version of mind-body (or soul-body) dualism. Let us define dualism as the doctrine which says that (1) human beings consist of both material bodies and immaterial souls; and (2) the soul is the essence of the person (the real you is your soul, not your body). ... This theory of resurrection is based on a view of human nature which says that human beings are essentially material bodies and immaterial souls; the soul is separable from the body, but neither body or soul alone (i .e., without the other) constitutes a complete human being. Thus Pseudo-Jus...

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In terms of faith, Coleridge felt that it was a complete self-commitment, and made up the whole of hope, love, and other virtues. ... He also felt that an act of faith was analogous to an act of a poet because both bring entire soul of man into realm of activity (Barth, Symbolic, 12-13). ... Instead of evil, Coleridge thought in terms of pain, arguing that the function of pain in the divine plan is to chasten man for his moral evil and return him to path of virtue. Involving trial and error, man slowly learns the relationship between virtue and happiness, with vice and pains being means for ma...

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