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#375 What Is the Mind? The Catholic View - Jimmy Akin

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Is There a Christian Theory of the Mind?

There's not a specific highly detailed theory that all Christians would be expected to adhere to. But there are certain basic things about the mind that had been infallibly defined. The Council of Vienna, back in the 1300s, infallibly defined that the rational soul is the form of the human body. And so consequently, Christian philosophers over the next 1300 years would discuss exactly how does our spirit relate to our body.

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