The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2

XV. Marburg’s Bultmann-Man a Unified Organism, Not Dualistic

The “unity” of man is increasingly recognized by leading theologians, along with a corresponding recognition of the fallacy of the Greek concept of an undying soul fettered by the clog of the inferior physical body-from which it is released at death. That such a view is alien to Scripture is repeatedly declared on both sides of the Atlantic. Another example is Dr. RUDOLPH BULTMANN, ⁶⁷ German Lutheran professor, and one of the most provocative religious thinkers of the day. He denies that Paul taught any such Dualism: CFF2 931.2

“The investigation of Paul’s use of soma has already shown that he does not dualistically set body and soul in opposition to each other. Just as Paul does not know the Greek-Hellenistic conception of the immortality of the soul (released from the body), neither does he use psyche to designate the seat or the power of the mental life which animates man’s matter, as it had become the custom to do among the Greeks.” ⁶⁸ CFF2 931.3