The Soul and the Brain: A Biblical-Theological and Philosophical Defense of Substance Dualism within the Promise-Plan of God

August 27, 2026

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This essay defends generic, holistic substance dualism—the claim that the human person is an integrated compound of an immaterial soul and a material body—against reductive materialism, nonreductive physicalism, and a post-biblical Hellenistic dualism that treats the body as a prison.

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Promise-Plan Theology

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Genesis 1; 1 Corinthians 15; Genesis 3:15; Jeremiah 31; Ezekiel 36; Romans 11; Luke 1:32–33; Luke 24:39

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