N.T. Wright has offered Christian philosophers a proposal where it is apparently possible to hold the belief in the intermediate state-resurrection of the body and an ontological holism in the same sense at the same time. I argue that this not only creates a basic contradiction in Wright’s ontological paradigm, but also it is not a coherent and tenable proposal despite the fact one might eventually find a potential solution to such a quandary. After engaging N.T. Wright’s article “Mind, Spirit, Soul and Body,” one can draw some significant conclusions. For Wright, the concept of the soul is not appealing, …
