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Among the treasures of our Christian heritage are two doctrinal statements bequeathed to us by Tertullian, the late-second and early-third century Carthaginian Church Father. It was he who provided his Christian heirs with the most precise formulation of the greatest of all mysteries, that of the Divine Trinity, namely: “One God in three Persons.” Thus did the word person–theretofore of little interest outside the context of the Greco-Roman theater–take on a significance that cannot be overestimated, especially today when the concept of the person that came into view with Christianity is widely mistaken to be a synonym for the word self, with which it differs decisively.
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Why The Soul Is Naturally Christian - Catholic-Link
Is the soul naturally Christian? The human soul has an ordination; it is not a neutral faculty. It has what Aristotle called an entelechy.
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