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What if Christianity never actually taught the existence of an immortal soul? Nicholas Thomas Wright explores mind, body, resurrection, and the Holy Spirit, arguing that the New Testament rejects Platonic dualism in favor of embodied human existence renewed through resurrection.

0:00 The Mind–Body Problem and Christian Theology
1:04 Why the New Testament Has No Platonic Soul
3:00 Resurrection and the Holy Spirit
5:05 Why Only God Has Immortality
6:21 Paradise and the New Creation
7:20 Human Vocation in the Renewed Creation

Nicholas Thomas Wright is a leading English New Testament scholar, Pauline theologian, and retired Anglican bishop.

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