Emergent dualism relies on the history of evolution to create a new whole a whole is greater than the sum of its parts and one new whole is the human soul. The nonphysical soul emerges from its physical past. Emergent dualism as another soul option
Let's take a tour through options, through alternative theologices of the soul such as Emergent Dualism, Nonreductive Physicalism, Theological Materialism, Atheistic Materialism, and, finally, a Trichotomy of soul with body and spirit. All these are distinctively Christian theological pictures; but along the way we’ll look briefly at Hinduism and Buddhism for comparison. Theologies of the Soul