Descartes addresses the faculty of sacred theology in the preface to his Meditations. Although there are some elements of the Mediations that this faculty would accept as true, Descartes’ push towards cartesian metaphysics, would be met with resistance. One of the main proponents of Cartesianism that the council would not support is its dualism. Descartes’ acknowledges the existence of bot a body and a soul, however, he believes that an individual’s true essence is held within the soul. The implications of this, is that once an individual experiences bodily death they will still exist in full as their soul. This is inherently different than the typical hylomorphic dualism of Christianity, which holds that man is the union of the body and soul.