Re: [asa] seminar on the soul and the body: Fri. Sept. 28, 3:30

Interesting. But, I am not sure about the production of a new
"spiritual-physical individual" at conception. How does he deal with
twinning for example?

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From: "Loren Haarsma" <lhaarsma@calvin.edu>
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Subject: [asa] seminar on the soul and the body: Fri. Sept. 28, 3:30

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> For the Grand Rapids, MI, area:
>
> The next Christian Perspectives in Science seminar at Calvin College is
>
> Friday, September 28, 3:30 PM in Science Building room 110.
>
> Speaker: John Cooper, Professor of Philosophical Theology,
> Calvin Theological Seminary.
>
> Title: A Classical Christian Emergent Anthropology
>
> Abstract:
> I'll argue that biblical anthropology presents a holistic or integral
> view of soul and body, but one in which persons can exist temporarily
> without earthly bodies. I'll then present a version of this anthropology
> - the generically Thomist view that that soul is the subsistent form
> (organizing, empowering principle) of the material body that constitutes
> humans as one spiritual-physical substance (not two-substance dualism) - a
> living organism with human capacities. But by God's supernatural power,
> the soul can exist apart from the body between death and resurrection.
> (It is not naturally immortal.) I modify Thomism by opting for a
> traducian rather than a creationist view of the soul: the union of sperm
> and egg is not merely biological but produces a new spiritual-physical
> individual. The soul does not "emerge" and develop from mere physical
> stuff by metaphysical magic (as in physicalism), but because the
> person-spiritual capacities are potentially present from conception.
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Received on Sun Sep 23 07:31:55 2007