Indeed, there is a sense that, as soon as the mind or the will was recognized as separable from the body or as a separate constitutive element of the person, psychological man became a very real conceptual possibility. From this perspective, the apostle Paul and Augustine are central figures. There was only at best a very vague concept of the will in classical philosophy; it is only when Paul offers his psychological account of the Christian’s inner struggle in his first-century New Testament letters, which was then picked up and developed in a deeply personal and elaborate way by Augustine in
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