In Christian theological anthropology, bipartite refers to the view that a human being is composed of two distinct components, material and immaterial, body and soul.
Reformation theologian John Calvin is often quoted as being in support of a bipartite view.
Calvin held that while the soul and the spirit are often used interchangeably in the Bible, there are also subtle differences when the two terms are used together.
[1] Some have held that the soul and the spirit are interchangeable and the inner life is expressed in a form of literary parallelism.
[3] R. C. Sproul holds that the body and the soul are two substances which are not in conflict.