Unbelievable? 04 Sep 2010 - Christian Physicalism: Do we have a soul?

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🗓️ 23 June 2014

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Christians have traditionally held that humans comprise two things - a body and a soul. Christian Philosophers have written in defence of the soul against a reductive atheism that claims we are material beings alone. But a new movement in Christian philosophy claims that the atheists are correct, at least when it comes to humans. Glenn Peoples is a Christian philosopher who subscribes to physicalism - that humans are only physical and they have no immaterial soul. He explains how he arrived at that view from Scripture and how he defends it philosophically, without giving up an evangelical Christian view. Prof John Haldane is a Christian philosopher at St Andrews University in Scotland. He believes that Christian faith and Philosophy bear witness to an immaterial soul - though his "Thomistic" view defends it differently to the prevailing trend. For Glenn Peoples Blog visit http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/ For John Haldane see http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~jjh1/ For John's Book "Reasonable Faith" see http://www.amazon.com/Reasonable-Faith-John-Haldane/dp/0415430240/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1 For more Christian/non Christian debate visit http://www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable or get the podcast at http://ondemand.premier.org.uk/unbelievable/AudioFeed.aspx or Via Itunes If you enjoyed this programme you may also enjoy: Unbelievable? 17 Jul 2010 - Wired for God? The biology of spiritual experience - Christian Charles Foster & Atheist Susan Blackmore Unbelievable? 23 Aug 2008 - Why there almost certainly IS a God: Keith Ward and Robert Stovold Join the discussion at the Unbelievable? group of the Premier Community http://www.premiercommunity.org.uk/group/unbelievable

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0:30.0	Welcome along this Saturday afternoon to unbelievable question mark with me
0:34.0	Justin Briley your host for the next hour and a half here on Premier Christian
0:37.6	radio and every afternoon here on a Saturday we bring together thinkers of
0:42.3	all different persuasions very often it's Christians
0:44.7	and atheists sometimes Christians and people of other faiths sometimes Christians and
0:48.7	Christians and Christians and that's the kind of discussion we're having today very
0:51.7	philosophical one for you today. Let me tell you
0:54.2	what it's all about. Well it's my pleasure to welcome into the studio New Zealand, Christian
1:01.2	philosopher Glenn Peoples. Are we going to find out about his blog and his
1:05.2	areas of interest. Also on the show today Professor John Haldane, who is a professor of philosophy
1:11.3	at the University of St Andrews will find out more about his
1:13.7	interests as well a broadcaster philosopher, paper advised to the Vatican all sorts of
1:18.8	things. We're looking today though at the question of the soul and the body are they two separate things do we have
1:25.6	an immaterial soul as it were or are they some sense one in the same thing Christian
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