The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2

IX. Princeton’s Homrighausen—Questions Independent Persistence of Spirit

Presbyterian dean of Princeton Theological Seminary, Dr. ELMER G. HOMRIGHAUSEN, ⁵⁵ has devoted most of his life to Christian education. Here is his added testimony in revolt against the Greek concept. Man is a “unity,” not an incongruous compound of an undying soul and a dying body: CFF2 926.3

“Man is a unity. The Greek emphasis upon immortality is also being challenged in favor of the emphasis upon the resurrection of the body. The so-called persistence of man’s spirit-as though it could be dissociated from his life in this world-is questioned. It casts aspersions on the body which God has made and which, for the ‘new being in Christ’ is called the temple of the Holy Spirit.” ⁵⁶ CFF2 926.4