In the study of Christology, St. Thomas’ use of Aristotelian natural science helps to avoid two extremes: 1) the neo-modernist “Christology from below” with its Nestorian and Arian tendencies and 2) the Monophysitism implicit in any theology which denigrates our Lord’s Sacred Humanity. The key concept in Aristotelian philosophy ad rem to this subject is [...]

The assignment: “Explain how modern ideas about the relation of body to soul have affected the Biblical idea of the human person.”
To answer this question, we must first explain the Biblical idea itself. Father Ashley states that human persons are “beings who are at one time material and spiritual, and made in the likeness [...]