The Formula of Concord, which is central to the confessional documents of the Lutheran church, declares that original sin has replaced the image of God in human beings with «a deep, wicked, abominable, bottomless, inscrutable, and inexpressible corruption of his entire nature in all its powers, especially of the highest and foremost powers of the soul in mind, heart, and will.» (firstthings.com)
The primary question — whether the very invention of photography had not transformed the entire nature of art — was not raised. (religion-online.org)
The supervenience thesis gives an explicit form to the idea that physical properties are primary and basic, and the physical properties an object instantiates — that is, its physical nature — determines all of its properties, that is, its entire nature. (religion-online.org)