Original Research

What is life?

D.T. Williams
Koers - Bulletin for Christian Scholarship/Bulletin vir Christelike Wetenskap | Vol 67, No 3 | a373 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/koers.v67i3.373 | © 2002 D.T. Williams | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 06 August 2002 | Published: 06 August 2002

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D.T. Williams, Department of Historical and Contextual Theology, University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa

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Abstract

The question of the nature of life, and therefore of the soul and spirit, has troubled people since time immemorial, especially if they are seen as essentially immaterial. It is suggested that the soul may be understood as the process of life, the inter-relationship between the parts of the body, and that the spirit is the driving force that motivates life. This is then related to the role of God in life, and particularly as the originator of new life in salvation.

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Life; Resurrection; Soul; Spirit

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