The Soul and the Body

• The human being consists in the union of soul and body, not soul alone nor body alone:
  • St. Vincent of Lérins: Commonitorium, 13;

• The question of pre-existence of souls.

• The human spirit, as apparently distinct from the soul: "All these three parts of our nature were created from the dust of the ground," [St. Seraphim of Sarov, Conversation with Motovilov].
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:23