1st Edition

The Origin of the Soul A Conversation

Edited By Joshua Farris, Joanna Leidenhag Copyright 2024
320 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

320 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

320 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Origin of the Soul is a contemporary retrieval of an important theological discussion throughout history. The origin of the soul is thought by many to be an outdated discussion that is theologically antiquated. And, yet, in recent years, there has been a renewed and growing interest not only in the soul, immaterial substances and theistic explanations for the origins of consciousness, but a... Read more

Foreword

Charles Taliaferro

Introducing the Origin of the Soul

Joshua R Farris

1 Creationist-Dualism: Theistic neo-Cartesianism

Joshua R Farris

2 Theistic Quantum-Informational Idealism and the Soul Sub Specie Aeternitatis

Bruce L Gordon

3 Panpsychist-Traducianism: Souls as Fundamental and Combined

Joanna Leidenhag

4 The Emergence of Souls

William Hasker

5 A Hylemorphist View: Neither Creationism nor Traducianism

J.T. Turner, Jr.

Afterword

Peter van Inwagen

Biography

Joshua R. Farris Rev., Ph.D, is a Humboldt Experienced Researcher Fellow and Visiting Researcher at the Ruhr Universität Bochum. He is the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Idealism and Immaterialism.

Joanna Leidenhag, PhD is Associate Professor of Theology and Philosophy at the University of Leeds. She is the author of Minding Creation: Theological Panpsychism and the Doctrine of Creation (2021), and co-author of Science-Engaged Theology (Cambridge Elements, 2023).