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Before we consider the possibility that a form of reincarnationism might be compatible with Christian faith and examine such warrants as we may find in the New Testament and patristic writings, we must first inspect more carefully what the notion of reincarnation may mean. We shall find that its meanings are as varied as are the meanings that have been attached to the notion of immortality. So we need to clear this ground in order to determine what form or forms of reincarnationism, if any, might possibly fit a genuinely Christian mould of thought and which must be ruled out.
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Under the term Wiedermenschwerdung, metempsychosis, or the transmigration of souls, a great variety of ideas may be understood. Désiré Joseph Mercier, Cardinal Archbishop, Psychologie
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Chapter 3: Ways of Understanding the Concept of Reincarnation
Lynn A. de Silva, The Problem of the Self in Buddhism and Christianity (Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Study Centre for Religion and Society, 1975) p. 112.
G. F. Moore, Metempsychosis (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1914) p. 56.
H.H. Price, however, in Perception (London: Methuen, 1932) p. 255f., invites us to conceive a disembodied visual percipient and contends that such a conception is not self-contradictory.
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Macgregor, G. (1982). Ways of Understanding the Concept of Reincarnation. In: Reincarnation as a Christian Hope. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06094-8_3
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