The Soul Or An Inquiry Into Scriptural Psychology

Author : George Bush
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330114186
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book The Soul written by George Bush and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Soul: Or an Inquiry Into Scriptural Psychology, as Developed by the Use of the Terms, Soul, Spirit, Life, Viewed in Its Bearings on the Doctrine of the Resurrection The present work has grown, by a very natural sequence, out of the farther investigations to which I have been prompted by the tenor of several elaborate critiques on the volume recently given to the world under the title of "Anastasia," or the Resurrection of the Body considered. So far as that work could be considered as propounding a distinct theory of the Resurrection, it is that of a spiritual, or rather psychical, body developed, by a natural law, from the material body at death. To establish this position is the drill of that portion of the volume embraced under the head of "The Rational Argument." The position itself, if founded on a solid basis, obviously strikes at the root of the prevalent notions on the general subject; for if a spiritual body be actually assumed by every individual upon his abandonment of the material body, there is plainly a very troublesome incongruity in the idea of the soul's receiving still another spiritual body at what is called the last day, or the era of the final consummation. Accordingly it is upon this part of the argument that the main force of the rebutting criticism has spent itself. The reviewers, as by common consent, have selected this as the one grand point of assault, and aimed to show that there was an entire lack of proof of the existence of any such psychical element in our being which, as a tertium quid between the spirit and the gross material body, could be regarded in any sense as a vchiculum animat, or ethereal corporeity for the inner intellectual and moral principle which forms the ipseily, self howl, or essential hypostasis of the man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.