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Does Christianity believe in monism?
In the main Christianity is dualistic and in a few other instances pluralistic. The two mainstay areas where one can determine a degree of monism or dualism are: 1. Creator …and Creation distinction 2. The Soul/Body Dichotomy Orthodox Christianity and Fundamentalist Evangelicals etc. believe that the Creator (God) is separate from His Creation and that the Human Being has two natures - a mortal body and an immortal soul. There minority groups who adhere to an Anthropological Monistic interpretation of Scripture in which there is no distinction between the soul and body of the human being. The human being is interchangeably body and soul. Or, again, the soul is really the the mortal body. Therefore when a human being dies this is the same as the soul dies. So while there is a partial monism within certain Christian sects a more complete form of Christian Monism needs to feature both items 1 and 2 above. I personally can think of only one modern group that is biblically based and with a fervent emphasis in Christ. However they do not readily identify themselves as and therefore with Christianity as a whole. (MORE)
