Chuck,
You remember incorrectly. It may have been an adherent of Dooyeweerd, but
not of Vollenhoven. Vollenhoven said (I believe in 1968) that in 1918
already he had trouble preaching about any text which contained the word
"soul". In his university lectures at the VU in 1942 he spent three hours
talking about the original words used in the Bible in Greek as well as in
Hebrew. He was very clear then to us that the word soul in the original
was not always translated as soul but if translated as living being, or
became alive in Gen. for example, then most of the difficulties in the
texts disappeared. Similarly in the NT.
Jan de K.
At 06:25 PM 05/02/02 -0500, Vandergraaf, Chuck wrote:
>Jan,
>
>I seem to recall (it's been many years) a statement made by an adherent to
>the Vollenhoven/Dooyeweerd philosophy that "the body is an expression of
>the soul." Thus, when a person dies, his/her ability to do the things "a
>body" does, is lost [temporarily] until the resurrection. I thought, at
>the time, that this was an elegant way to put it. Philosophy not being my
>strong suit, I'm not sure if this comment adds clarity or confusion.
>
>Chuck Vandergraaf
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jan de Koning [<mailto:jan@dekoning.ca>mailto:jan@dekoning.ca]
>Sent: Tuesday February 05, 2002 5:06 PM
>To: Adrian Teo
>Cc: 'Asa@Calvin. Edu '
>Subject: RE: Do animals ever "sin" (was something else)
>
>What Adrian wrote below does not answer my posting. Thomistic views are
>not reformed, and I pointed out that almost all philosophies, including
>Thomism is based on Greek philosophy. For that reason Vollenhoven had
>trouble with it and showed the original Hebrew and Greek bible texts, which
>no-where indicated a dualism. If so, show the bible texts,then we may be
>able to discuss. Again, time and again it has been shown that the medieval
>RC philosophers based their theories on the philosphies of either Plato, or
>Aristotle, and argued on the base of Greek philosophy rather than the Bible.
>
>Jan de K.
>
>At 05:50 PM 04/02/02 -0800, Adrian Teo wrote:
> >This is a difficult philosophical and theological problem that is also
> >highly controversial - today. The position Jan is advocating seems to be
> >consistent with what has come to be known as nonreductive physicalism -
> >which is a monistic understanding of the nature of the person. There are
> >just some major philosophical/theological problems with this approach, and
> >is quite unsatisfying. The more traditional dualistic understanding (not
> >Cartesian but Thomistic) does a better job I think. In this case then, the
> >person is not a soul, but a body AND soul. This position (of dualism) has
> >been held by Christians since the earliest days, and to claim in the 20th
> >century that these folks got it wrong all along (i.e. for 20 centuries)on
> >such a major theological issue is to call into serious question the role of
> >the Holy Spirit in guiding the church.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Jan de Koning
> >To: Walter Hicks
> >Cc: Asa@Calvin. Edu
> >Sent: 2/4/2002 2:03 PM
> >Subject: Re: Do animals ever "sin" (was something else)
> >
> >As far as I remember, I replied last week that man does not have a soul,
> >
> >but that man is a soul. I quoted some texts from HS, indicating that
> >the
> >word "nephesh" was often translated as "living being", for example in
> >Gen.1. When the word was used in Gen.2, Adam received a "soul" instead
> >of
> >becoming a living being. I believe, I referred to writings of some
> >theologians.
> >
> >Jan de K.
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