| Title: | The separation of body and soul after death: a pedagogical interpretation |
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| Authors: | ID Goršak, Bernard (Author) |
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| Files: |  RAZ_Gorsak_Bernard_2025.pdf (2,66 MB)
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Article |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: | FPE - Faculty of Law and Economics
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| Abstract: | One of the core mysteries of Christian theology concerns the separation of body and soul after death. According to the common understanding shared by the majority of Christian denominations, the soul departs from the physical body at the moment of death and enters a so-called intermediate state. The mystery lies in the nature of this postmortem existence of the soul, especially since a central Catholic dogma defines the human being not as a composition of two distinct yet connected entities (soul and body), but as a single, unified reality—a soul–body unity— arising from their synthesis. At the beginning of the Bible, an ontological definition of the human person is presented in the form of a categorical statement describing how man became a living soul: not only did he receive a soul from God as something added to him, but he himself became a soul. In this light, particularly when presenting this intriguing dilemma to a younger audience in the context of catechesis, it is exceedingly helpful to employ an appropriate analogy that, through comparison and parallelism, can render such a complex subject more intelligible. This article aims to present one such viable analogy. |
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| Keywords: | death, soul, body, intermediate state, last judgement, particular judgment |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Publication date: | 29.12.2025 |
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| Publisher: | Fakulteta za pravo in ekonomijo |
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| Year of publishing: | 2025 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 7-29 |
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| Numbering: | Letn. 10, št. 2 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/ReVIS-12960  |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 264744963 |
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| UDC: | 27-175:27-18 |
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| ISSN on article: | 2464-0344 |
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| DOI: | 10.62983/rn2865.25b.1 |
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| Copyright: | Fakulteta za pravo in ekonomijo |
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| Publication date in ReVIS: | 19.01.2026 |
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| Views: | 150 |
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| Downloads: | 1 |
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