Table of Contents
List of Diagrams xi
Acknowledgements xii
Abbreviations xvi
Notes on the Text xix
Introduction xxiii
1 Coleridge in Limbo: Competing Views on Body and Soul 1
What is Life? 1
Debate, and a Theory 1
Coleridge and Naturphilosophie: Agreements and Benefits, and Beyond 5
Establishing Relationships: Nature, Man, and God 9
Establishing Relationships: Life and Mind, Body and Soul 14
Landing-Place 1 17
Coleridge, Greek Philosophy, and the Body/Soul Relationship 19
Coleridge, Plato, and Ideal Body/Soul Dynamics 20
Body and Soul: 'Real' Platonic Relations on Earth 22
The Post-Mortem Soul: A Difficult Loss 23
The Post-Mortem Soul: the Means to the Ideal End 28
Contextualising Plato: Religion and Philosophy 29
Landing-Place 2 31
The Traditional Hebraic Human: Coleridge's Negative Response 32
The Hebraic Body and its 'Life-Element' 32
The Hebraic Paradigm: How Much Did Coleridge Know? 34
Genesis 2.7 37
'The Thoughts of the Sacred Penmen' 42
The Hebraic 'Future State' 46
'Solutions' to the Hebraic Paradigm 48
Landing-Place 3 50
Life and Mind: Adapting Dualistic Inclinations 51
A New Paradigm: The Boundaries 51
Reasons for Re-evaluation 52
Consequences of Re-evaluation 1: Two Types of Life 56
Consequences of Re-evaluation 2: Two Types of Mind 57
Consequences of Re-evaluation 3: The Triple Ichheit 58
Landing-Place 4 64
2 Indecisive Reflections: Body, Soul, and Pauline Theology 67
Coleridge and St Paul 68
The Pauline Body: Romans 7.24 71
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Contexts 71
Coleridgean Contexts 1 Mesmerising Possibilities 73
Coleridgean Contexts 2 The Plight of the Sage 78
Coleridgean Contexts 3 The Sensual Body on Earth 80
Coleridgean Contexts 4 The Fate of the Sage 83
Coleridgean Contexts 5 The Sensual Body After Death; or, A Fear of 'The inevitable Rebound of the I am' 86
Landing-Place 1 94
The Pauline Flesh 96
Defying Definition 96
Coleridge, 'The Flesh', and Romans 7.24 99
Coleridge and 'The Flesh': $$$ $$$ $$$ and Romans 8.5-6 103
Landing-Place 2 110
3 The Crux of the Dilemma: The Incarnation, Humanity, and 'Obnoxious Body' of Christ 112
Human Nature and The Son of God 114
The Son of God, the Son of Man, and the Two Natures of Christ 114
Christ's 'Being In-carnate' 115
The Problem of 'the Sinful Flesh' 118
Christ the Redeemer: His 'Likeness' to Earthly Men 121
A Question of 'Likeness' 121
The 'True Identity' 129
The Parallel Concept, or 'mystic Duplicity' 132
Parallel Concepts of Jesus' Body and Soul in Historical Context 134
Coleridge and Edward Irving 134
The 'Condition of the Creature' 136
Christ's Human Nature 138
The Attack, and Irving's Defence 140
Landing-Place 1 141
'Obnoxious' Implications: Coleridge and Irving on Christ's Human Nature 143
Dangerous Misreading 143
Mitigating Features 145
'Preserve Undiminished the Proper Glory' 146
Coleridge's Oscillations 148
Landing-Place 2 155
Fearful Prospects: The Consequences of Uncertainty 156
4 Resurrection: the Role of the 'Natural Body' 162
Our 'Future Stale' 162
Post-Mortem Human; Post-Mortem Man 164
Personal Identity: Revived or Remade? 167
Continuous Conundra 172
The (Post-Mortem) Spiritual Body 173
An Option or A 'Must'?: Pauline Positions-and Swedenborgian Suggestions 173
Swedenborg's Substantial Thoughts 177
Sensible Dilemma 1: To Be, or Not To Be? 183
Sensible Dilemma 2: Mind the Gap? 186
A Gap between the Bodies: the Ultimate Reason Why 189
Landing-Place 1 191
The Natural Body: Future Roles? 192
Setting the Stage 192
A Short Act 194
Sustenance for The Interval 196
The Villain 202
The Continued Presence of the Natural Body: Implications for 'Soul' and the 'Spiritual Man' 204
Re-call and Regroup: Corinthian Callings 204
Seek Other Objects 208
Ideal Objects, Here and Now 211
Here and Now: Seek and Ye Shall Find-or Fleshly Thwartings 213
Fleshly Thwartings: The Personal Angle 218
Ideal Objects, There and Then: Seek and Ye Shall Find? 220
The Step Missed: Losing the Heavenly Object, or Natural Body beyond the Gap 222
Conclusions 224
A Scheme of Life 224
Anticipating Loss 226
Appendix A Understanding 229
Appendix B The Triple Ichheit: Threefold 'I'-ness in the Human Being on Earth (the 'natural or psychical Man') 231
Endnotes 232
Bibliography 281
Index 293
