SOCI 2660 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Anthropocentrism, Manichaeism, Early Christianity
13 Nov 2017
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Plato argues that the human self is divided between a body and a psyche. This notion of a soul has nothing to do with the christian notion, it simply has to do with the home or embodiment of reason. In modernity, this body soul notion turns into a body mind notion. This theory of having a immaterial soul with in a material body is barrowed from greek theory by christianity. The christian creed also includes a resurrection of the body after death. According to steve and habes, in early christianity the separation of body and spirit but the separation of the flesh and the spirit. The essential christian message is that of rebirth. Flesh and spirit are different ways of symbolising anthropocentric and theocentric man centred and god centred. Peter brown, the body and security in early christianity. Tries to give us an idea of the notion of the christian ideas of the body.
