Theology & Ethics 115: What is the Soul? (with Joshua Ryan Farris)
Welcome to the Theology & Ethics podcast! In this episode, the KC team (and Dr. Joshua Ryan Farris) talk about a recent book “The Origins of the Soul” which lays out five competing views on the origin and nature of the human soul from a Christian worldview. This book was discussed by the authors at the 2024 Evangelical Philosophical Society Annual Conference in San Diego.
Joshua Ryan Farris, Rev, Ph.D, is Humboldt Experienced Researcher Fellow at the University of Bochum, Germany, 2022-2023; Mundelein Seminary Chester and Margaret Paluch Professor, 2020-2021, March 2020 Center of Theological Inquiry; Director of Trinity School of Theology; International Advisor, Perichoresis, The Theological Journal of Emanuel University; Associate Editor, Philosophical and Theological Studies for the Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies; Associate Editor, European Journal of Philosophy of Religion.
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Chapters:
00:00:00-Introduction
00:02:16-A Brief History of the Soul
00:05:37-What is Substance Dualism?
00:12:54-The Assumption of Substance Dualism in History
00:17:18-Why So Many Books on The Soul NOW?
00:27:37-J.T. Turner’s Animalism
00:35:00-Creationism vs. Traducianism
00:43:00-Hasker’s Emergent Self View
00:45:55-Leidenhag’s Panpsychist Traducianism
00:55:57-Farris’s Creationist Dualism/Theistic Neo-Cartesianism
01:09:29-Original Sin and The Soul
01:14:50-Bruce Gordon’s Theistic Quantum Informational Idealism
01:22:22-The Soul and The Scriptures
01:33:50-Abortion and The Soul
01:42:35-Outro