* Your critique of soul/body dualism might apply to Plato's view (or Descartes'), but the Christian doctrine is the resurrection of the body (famously referred to as foolishness to the Greeks and a stumbling-block to the Jews); the soul and its putative immortality do not appear in the early Christian creeds.
* I (and the OED) don't know what you mean by 'monophysic': from the Greek (monos/physis), perhaps something like 'single nature' (= no body/soul dualism?). 'Monophysitism' however was something quite different.
* There were church councils at Nicaea (now the Turkish town of Iznik), but not in the third century (one in the 4th, another in the 8th), and the delegates were concerned with other matters (Arianism and iconoclasm, respectively). They would have regarded the questions you raise as (as you say) childish.
* Incidentally, the comment about the Nagasaki cathedral recalls that the planner of the Pearl Harbor raid, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, was a Nagasaki Catholic (educated at Harvard), eventually assassinated on Roosevelt's orders.
--CGE
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>Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 07:41:24 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.com>
>Subject: [lbo-talk] Weber' polar night
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
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>So more on the definition of modernity---Weber's polar night.
I prefer
>juxtapositioning experiences to theoretical definitions in this
>case. Do the donkey and the jet coexist in the same world?
>...