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The Human Soul

The rational, God-given spark within, made for immortality

The human soul is understood as the immaterial, rational principle of human life, created by God and destined for immortality, a theme treated by Tertullian and Augustine. Several questions were debated: whether each soul is freshly created or transmitted from the parents, and whether human nature is twofold or threefold. The notion that souls pre-existed their bodies was condemned, while belief in the soul's divine creation and immortality endured.

How it traveled

  1. 1 Corinthians
    Ephesus · 67
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  2. Matthew
    Antioch · 80
    explains
  3. The Resurrection of the Dead
    Alexandria · 190
    explains
  4. Against Heresies: Book V
    Lyons · 202
    explains
  5. A Treatise on the Soul.
    — · 220
    explains
  6. On the Resurrection of the Flesh.
    — · 220
    redefines
  7. On the Workmanship of God, or the Formation of Man
    — · 325
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  8. Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen
    Nazianzus · 390
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  9. On the Making of Man
    Nyssa · 395
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  10. On the Soul and the Resurrection
    Nyssa · 395
    explains
  11. The Great Catechism
    Nyssa · 395
    explains
  12. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  13. Homilies on First Corinthians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  14. The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  15. The Letters of St. Jerome
    Bethlehem · 420
    explains
  16. A Treatise on the Soul and its Origin
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  17. City of God
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  18. Letters of St. Augustin
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  19. On the Holy Trinity
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  20. The Confessions
    Hippo Regius · 430
    redefines
  21. Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  22. On Two Souls, Against the Manichæans
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  23. Two Books of Soliloquies
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  24. Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  25. A Treatise on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infants
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  26. On Christian Doctrine
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  27. Against the Epistle of Manichæus, Called Fundamental
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  28. The Enchiridion
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  29. The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret
    Cyrrhus · 458
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  30. John of Damascus: Exposition of the Orthodox Faith
    Damascus · 749
    explains
  31. Treatise on Man (qq[75]-102)
    Paris · 1274
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  32. Treatise on the Conservation and Government of Creatures (qq[103]-119)
    Paris · 1274
    explains
  33. Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59)
    Paris · 1274
    explains
  34. Treatise on the Angels (qq[50]-64)
    Paris · 1274
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  35. Treatise on The One God (QQ[2-26])
    Paris · 1274
    explains
  36. Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the Gospel
    Geneva · 1564
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  37. Book First. of the Knowledge of God the Creator
    Geneva · 1564
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  38. Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It
    Geneva · 1564
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  39. The great christian doctrine of original sin defended
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  40. Seventeen Occasional Sermons
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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