Reasonable Faith Podcast Question of the Week #980: The Soul of the Incarnate Christ and the Trinity
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Mar 19, 2026 A deep question about how souls, personhood, and the Trinity interact when God becomes human. The conversation compares views that people are unipersonal souls versus a tripersonal divine soul. Classic and alternative accounts of the Logos assuming a human soul are explored. The speaker proposes the Logos itself as the soul of Christ and clarifies that only one divine person became incarnate.
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The Logos Is The Soul Of The Incarnate Christ
- William Lane Craig identifies human persons as a soul intimately united to a body where the soul is the person itself.
- He extends this to the Incarnation by saying the Logos just is the soul of Christ, so the person Christ is the divine Logos incarnate.
God As A Tripersonal Soul
- Craig argues a unipersonal soul ordinarily constitutes a person, but God is a tripersonal soul with three sets of cognitive faculties, each sufficient for personhood.
- This implies God is tri-personal rather than a single person, avoiding simple soul-person identity for the Trinity.
Rejecting Dual Souls To Avoid Nestorianism
- Classic theology describes the Logos acquiring a distinct human soul, which Craig rejects because a human soul apart from the Logos would be another person and risk Nestorianism.
- Instead he holds the second person is the soul of Christ, avoiding dual-personhood in Jesus.