Science, Revelation, and Biblical Dualism

<p>A longstanding preoccupation of scholars of religion is the degree to which the body of revelation attested by a given religion is compatible with science. There are cases in which thinkers belonging to a religion go out of their way to deny that a claim has the status of revelation, despite evidence to the contrary, in order to guard their faith against scientific criticism. This is part of what I think is going on in the controversy upon which this paper focusses: the controversy over the place of mind-body (or soul-body) dualism in Christianity. </p>