Spirit, Soul, and Body

In The Amber Spyglass, Mary and Lyra are discussing the idea of the three parts to the being. “You know,” she said, “the Church – the Catholic Church that I used to belong to – wouldn't use the word daemon, but St. Paul talks about spirit and soul and body. So the idea of three parts in human nature isn't so strange.” It is strange that a book with such a major theme concerning the evils of established religion would accept so readily the church's view on the subject. But maybe Pullman did this to make a point. It seems that it is not the church's ideas which are wrong it is the aristocracy, superiority, and moral policing which seem to be wrong. It reminds me of Gandhi who said: “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”