Why another book on the body and the soul? Isn't this a dead issue, an old-fashioned theological topic which no one cares about anymore? Isn't it one of those purely academic questions which has no bearing on anything important in life? What is the point of raising it again? As a matter of fact the nature of the human soul is far from being an irrelevant question or dead issue. For many in the academic community have taken a clear position on the body soul question which they continue to assert with conviction. And if what they are saying is true, then two disturbing conclusions immediately follow. First, a doctrine affirmed by most of the Christian church since its beginning is false. A second consequence is more personal and existential what millions of Christians believe will happen to them when they die is also a delusion.