# Soul-Body Unity **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Catholic Theology / Anthropology **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Established Catholic doctrinal concept ## Definition **Soul-Body Unity** is the Catholic teaching that the human person is not two independent substances merely attached together but one nature constituted through profound unity of body and spiritual soul. ## Continuity Significance It challenges theories identifying the whole human person with an abstract information pattern while allowing the Church to affirm survival of the soul after death. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Catechism §§364–366 describes the soul as the form of the body and the person as a unity. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Catholicism also teaches that death separates soul and body; unity is not literal inseparability. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Catholic Anthropology and Digital Continuity|Catholic Anthropology and Digital Continuity]] · [[wiki/Resurrection of the Body|Resurrection of the Body]] · [[wiki/Theological Non-Equivalence of Uploading|Theological Non-Equivalence of Uploading]] ## Sources / Provenance - https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_one/section_two/chapter_one/article_1/paragraph_6_man.html