Prof. Bush on the Soul by Dudley Marvin Canright

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 26, 1870

Prof. Bush on the Soul.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

This learned man has written a work with the above title to prove that the soul is the real man, that the body will not be raised, but that the resurrection occurs at death—a theory well worthy of this age of Spiritualism. However, facts have compelled him to make some good admissions. Here is one:—

“The more subtile distinction, familiar in our philosophy, between substance strictly material and immaterial appears not to be expressly recognized in the sacred writings.” p. 21.

Again he says:—“It is an important fact which is necessarily lost sight of by the mere English reader, that precisely the same language is employed in reference to the creation of man and beast. They were both made psuchai zosai, living souls.” p. 28. Immortal-soulists will please notice this fact.

He further says that “the verbal distinction of life and soul so familiar to us is not known in the Hebrew.” p. 108. That is, soul simply means life. He also confesses that the word soul is applied to dead bodies. pp. 62, 107. This seems to trouble him much, and he hardly knows how to dispose of it.

D. M. CANRIGHT.