Brooks Agnew – It is mortal to think of the soul existing inside the body. It is immortal to realize the truth. The body resides in the soul. In the context of scholastic teaching that man is composed of body and soul, the question arises how the relationship between these two elements is to be conceived.
Man’s soul is spiritual in nature, so how can such a spiritual principle be related to the matter of the human body? The disproportion between matter and spirit seems so great that it is difficult to conceive how both can be joined in man to form an essential unity. Continue reading