Cf. Spirit of Men (Soul)
John 3; 6.63; 1 John 4.2
1 Cor. 15:42ff; 2:10-14
2 Cor. 2:13; 7:1; 11:4; 3:17-18
Jude 19
SC Creed I: “made me” “body and soul” “reason and all my senses”
AE 35:371-372: Flesh and spirit you must not understand as though flesh is only that which has to do with unchastity and spirit is only that which has to do with what is inwardly in the heart. Rather, like Christ in John 3[:6], Paul calls everything “flesh” that is born of the flesh—the whole man, with body and soul, mind and senses—because everything about him longs for the flesh. Thus you should learn to call him “fleshly” too who thinks, teaches, and talks a great deal about lofty spiritual matters, yet does so without grace. From the “works of the flesh” in Galatians 5[:19–21], you can learn that Paul calls heresy and hatred “works of the flesh.” And in Romans 8[:3] he says that “the law is weakened by the flesh”; yet this is said not of unchastity, but of all sins, and above all of unbelief, which is the most spiritual of all vices. On the contrary, you should call him “spiritual” who is occupied with the most external kind of works, as Christ was when he washed the disciples’ feet [John 13:1–14], and Peter when he steered his boat and fished. Thus “the flesh” is a man who lives and works, inwardly and outwardly, in the service of the flesh’s gain and of this temporal life. “The spirit” is the man who lives and works, inwardly and outwardly, in the service of the Spirit and of the future life.
Parts of the soul; parts of the body
Implications for worship, work, leisure…