soul

One of the questions in Samuel Rutherford's catechism is: While I'm not sure it is helpful to determine the relative importance of parts of the soul, I find his answer surprising. I would not consider the conscience to be the "principal" part of the soul (I think the intellect would be a...

The late-seventeenth century reformed Dutch theologian Peter van Mastricht wrote Theoretical-Practical Theology (RHB). It is in my opinion the best systematic theology existent in English. Volume 4 is out, on Christ’s Person, filled with wonderful material. Three topics in the volume...

In the excerpt from Gisbertus Voetius (1589 - 1676) on "The Use of Reason in Matters of Faith" contained in the appendix of Willem J. Van Asselt's Introduction to Reformed Scholasticism, Voetius says the following: Any idea who these "physicists" are?

Could I get some help understanding this? Is not my person equivalent to my soul? So whenever a human soul is created, a new person is created, correct? But, if so, and Jesus had a human soul, how do we logically avoid Nestorianism in saying that the creation of Jesus' human soul didn't result...

Hello All, I was recently in one of my biblical counseling classes at RPTS and the topic of the relationship between Body, Mind and Spirit came up. Does anybody know of a source that addresses this relationship in counseling and how it relates to biblical history in both the OT and NT views...

Does the WCF teach traduciansim? In case some reading this don't know, there are two main views of our souls. Creationism is the view that God creates our souls and gives them to us directly (presumably at conception?). Traducianism is the view our souls are essentially passed to us from...

What is the proper way to describe the relationship between God, the Fall, and our corrupted souls? Why is the charge that "God creates us evil" illegitimate? I have some thoughts about this, but was hoping to clarify my thoughts. The context for this question is that my father-in-law was...