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When the Whole Person Keeps the Score

Biblical Language About the Body and Suffering In a recent post, Matthew Statler seeks to present “biblical language about the body and suffering.” That is an excellent goal.It is a goal I’ve pursued for more than forty years—every since I wrote my Th.M. thesis on how the Old Testament describes human beings and the human condition (Hebrew Anthropological Terms as a Foundation for a Biblical Counseling Model of Man).The Bible, the Embodied-Soul, and Traumatic Suffering In his post, Statler argue