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Theology of the Body: An Overview | Fr. Thomas Petri, O.P.

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Aquinas' Insistence on the Body and Soul

The Aquinas had realized that the body and soul are inextricably linked. For St. Thomas, the body is made for the soul but not a mere instrument of the soul. He argues that after death when our souls are separated from the body, we do not become angels. The immaterial element needs the body, but it's not reducible to the body.

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