A Brief History of the Soul

Humanity has always been looking for an answer to the question that such a soul: Some considered it loosely tied to the body, others - a pure spirit. On the pages of this book, the Italian theologian, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravazi, suggests once again by finding the soul, starting with primitive cultures and ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and Arabia. In the center of the study - two main sources that have formed a Western idea of ​​the soul: Holy Scripture and Greek culture with its great philosophers Plato, Aristotle and Dam. Having reached the end of the way, we will see, the author believes that the history of the soul coincides with the history of man - the creation of God