As forms of human action, practices are forms of bodily action. (religion-online.org)
For with thought — unlike bodily action — we can get beyond the present into the past and future and indeed from the realm of the real into that of the merely possible. (religion-online.org)
Without further qualification, the capacities cultivated in theological schooling could just as well be capacities for «doing» contemplation or capacities for specific affections as they could be capacities for intentional bodily action and discursive reasoning. (religion-online.org)