{"id":1358,"date":"2023-06-25T19:51:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T19:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/06\/25\/body-soul-and-self-revisited\/"},"modified":"2023-06-25T19:51:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T19:51:03","slug":"body-soul-and-self-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/06\/25\/body-soul-and-self-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Body, Soul, and Self Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">On 4 December of last year, a <em>Substack<\/em> entry of mine entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/care-of-soul-and-body\">Care of Body and Soul<\/a> occasioned a comment by Tony Flood to which I replied on 10 December in <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2022\/12\/tony-flood-writes-hard-to-imagine-hitchens-at-almost-73-had-he-livedgreat-post-but-i-have-a-question-briefly-why-do.html\">Body, Soul, Self<\/a>. Today, 25 June 2023 Tony responds to my response in a piece entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/anthonygflood.com\/2023\/06\/mans-true-self-my-reply-to-critics\/#more-7638\">Man&#39;s &quot;True Self&quot;: A Reply to Critics.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Now at the moment I do not have the time or the energy to examine Tony&#39;s article in detail. But in the last few days I have been reading Hans Urs von Balthasar who has illuminating things to say on the topic. So for now I will simply add to the mix by referring Tony and anyone who is interested to Chapter 2 (&quot;Flesh and Spirit&quot;) of Part III of Balthasar&#39;s <em>Prayer<\/em> (Ignatius Press, 1986) which includes the line &quot;scripture itself seems to legitimize the adoption and christening of Hellenic terms at the very outset, especially in the Pauline use of &#39;flesh&#39; (<em>sarx<\/em>) and &#39;spirit&#39; (<em>pneuma, nous<\/em>).&quot; (pp. 260-61)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 4 December of last year, a Substack entry of mine entitled Care of Body and Soul occasioned a comment by Tony Flood to which I replied on 10 December in Body, Soul, Self. Today, 25 June 2023 Tony responds to my response in a piece entitled Man&#39;s &quot;True Self&quot;: A Reply to Critics. Now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/06\/25\/body-soul-and-self-revisited\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Body, Soul, and Self Revisited&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[402,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-and-soul","category-christian-doctrine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}