Paul believed that our body is «sown as an animal body» and «raised
as a spiritual body» (I Cor.
well
as a spiritual body.
He may have come closest to what Paul understood
as the spiritual body.
St Thomas taught that Jesus is present
as a spiritual body without accidents, under the appearances, or accidents, of bread and wine.
Into this category fell Marsilius of Padua in the fourteenth century with his «modern'theory of the Church
as a spiritual body in an entirely secular society, and Jan Huss (d. 1415), a Bohemian priest and university lecturer in Prague, one of the first to compose a treatise on The Church.
Not exact matches
Amp up your
spiritual fitness: Most people workout their
bodies, but getting a workout routine for your mind is just
as important.
After the devastating losses of the Civil War, people were searching for comfort and found it in a book called «The Gates Ajar,» which depicted Heaven
as a place where people led normal lives in their «
spiritual bodies,» with houses, families, and regular activities.
But a
spiritual epiphany, which she openly talks about in her 2013 book Following the Breadcrumbs (Authentic) led her to use music
as a medium to communicate with young people suffering from low self - esteem and
body image issues.
Others may have organizations or professional groups they are part of that instill this
as well (Canadian Association for
Spiritual Care, the
body that provides certificatoin in pastoral education in Canada).
It is,
as Richard Rohr calls it, the
spiritual «symbiosis» between mutual members of the
Body of Christ (Things Hidden, 2).
Oh, we all know their
bodies are out in the cemetery, but
as long
as we have that altar and all that goes with it, these people in a very real,
spiritual sense are still with us.
Now
as the soul is more excellent than the
body, and admits of far greater joy, so this
spiritual union brings in more astonishing delights and ravishments than any other marriage relationship is capable of.
Could the average Catholic teacher in the UK give a reasoned account of the teaching that each of us has «a
spiritual soul
as well
as a
body», and that the soul is «irreducible to the merely material», to our scientifically aware but deeply secularised young people?
«The Christian vision of the human person made in the image of God with a
spiritual soul
as well
as a
body is of central importance.
In so far
as this involved the
body as a possible enemy of
spiritual living, he counseled the utter subordination of the
body, saying with characteristic hyperbole that hands and feet were to be amputated and eyes plucked out if they caused the higher life of a man to stumble.
Francis prayed that he might be given the gift of suffering
as Christ had suffered, and his prayer was granted in the form of the stigmata — another Franciscan novum in the history of the Christian
spiritual life, although it was anticipated in Paul's confession to the Galatians that he bore on his
body «the marks of Jesus» (Gal.
He has a
body, and it is in and through this
body that his character must be developed, his physical existence supporting and standing
as a pledge for the reality of his rational and
spiritual commitments.
The synod agreed that the evils responsible for the recent catastrophes were such things
as pride in heart and
body, a
spiritual falling away, excessive profanity, breakdown of family life, and failure to observe the Sabbath.
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True worship is the offering of our own living
bodies as a
spiritual worship truly pleasing to God.
Holloway «sargumentation, however, is more technical: He argues that love is
spiritual and is «made» «through the
spiritual soul» «not through the
body as [the] principle of eliciting», [3] and the
body is not apt to be the cause of
spiritual union per se.
(I John 4:7 - 8)
As for the sacrificial system, that had been displaced by a moral and universally applicable substitute — «Present your
bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your
spiritual service.»
And the silly thing about
spiritual gifts is that, if abused, they can just
as easily divide the
body as unite the
body.
[57] St Paul says the same: «Present your
bodies as living sacrifices, holy and acceptable to God, which is your
spiritual worship.»
We are created with a
spiritual soul
as well
as a
body, and so material things alone are not enough to satisfy us: we yearn for what is truly
spiritual.
The stories of the appearances of Christ combine traditions about a «
spiritual body» such
as Paul speaks about (the Lord appears suddenly within a room) with others which tell of a tangible
body, capable of being touched or grasped and of the physical process of eating.
It is not merely some one part of our make - up which will be brought to life again: naked,
as it were, and without any mode of self - identification and self - expression corresponding, in a
spiritual existence, to the physical
body in our earthly existence.
When the
body of a man dies, then the soul is released,
as from a prison, for fuller life in a
spiritual realm.
Every person has a need for the pleasures of the mind and the
body; these include sexual, intellectual, aesthetic, interpersonal, and
spiritual satisfactions,
as well
as adventure derived from new experiences.
Anyway, your point leads to the speculation that the difference between the physical
body and the
spiritual body is not so much of substance
as of degree.
True to its Greek origins, this tradition defines the
spiritual as the immaterial — this world, our
bodies and our experiences are only shadows, while the real
spiritual world exists someplace else where truth, beauty and justice last forever.
The cross emphasizes losing yourself and your individualism, but most teach today «be all you can be» or grow in
spiritual disciplines
as an individual, while with holding the real
body of Christ and the true mechanism that was divinely designed to get us there.
This leads to a dualistic view that many still espouse, according to which the material and
spiritual,
body and soul, are seen
as separate and unequal elements, temporarily joined together (during our lifetime) but separated in death so that the soul can assume its rightful, higher place.
«Present your
bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your
spiritual worship.
The world was regarded
as directly governed by
spiritual powers,
as a man controls his
body.
Another influential sixth - century monastic, Caesarea of Arles, wrote, «The souls not only of nuns, but of all men and women, if they will guard chastity of the
body and virginity of the heart... should not doubt that they are spouses of Christ,» and he put forward the
spiritual marriage to Jesus in Heaven
as reason for remaining celibate while on earth.
The biblical expression for this action is the resurrection of the
body, thus preserving the doctrine of the unity of man, and rejecting the conception of the soul
as a
spiritual entity in man which is naturally endowed with the capacity to persist beyond death.
Under the leadership of the late Roy Burkhart, that church took
as its aim the guidance and
spiritual enrichment of life «from birth through all the years of life in the tabernacle of the
body.»
The Church clearly still wishes to retain talk of the
spiritual soul
as was evident at the Second Vatican Council and has been confirmed more recently by the Catechism of the Catholic Church: «The human person, though made of
body and soul, is a unity».
I appeal to you, brethren, by the mercies of God to present your
bodies as living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God which is your
spiritual worship.
A strong impulse toward ecumenical unity emanates from the personal and
spiritual writings of this self - described «maverick Baptist working for the United Methodists» in search of «catholic» reality within the «basic unity of... the church
as the
Body of Christ» («Church History Is My Vocation.»
We are created with a
spiritual soul
as well
as a
body, and so material things alone are not enough to satisfy us: we yearn for what is truly...
Lumen gentium teaches that «Christ... has founded... his Holy Church»; «has made her visible framework... the dispenser of grace and truth»; «she is a society equipped with hierarchical organs and the Mystical
Body of Christ, a visible assembly and a
spiritual fellowship»; «we must not think of the Church
as two substances, but a single, complex reality, the compound of a human and a divine element» (n. 8).
The Incarnation enables us to see both
spiritual bodies and nature
as transformed by Christ.
Our concern is not with these, but rather to state simply that the reality of the presence of Christ in the Holy Communion is a given fact of two thousand years of Christian experience, and that Christian worship
as it has historically developed has found that in the partaking of the consecrated bread and wine,
as Christ commanded, His «
spiritual body and blood» — which is to say, the reality of His life, divine and human, in a uniquely intimate and genuine way — have been received
as His presence has been known and his person adored.
Aristotle, noting that the human embryo in its earliestform did not have a human form, head,
body and limbs, imagined that it had an animal soul which was replaced by a
spiritual soul
as soon
as the human form definitely became apparent.
Peace and Ramadan Kareem to all Muslim Brothers and Sisters... Inshallah fasting from Monday Dawn to SunSet... Just wonder in Christians or non Religious have tried fasting
as Muslims do... am sure with time they will adopt it
as a system for the health benefits it holds health and
body... it is told it helps the
body to discharge and burn out the poisonous chemicals from our
bodies other than controlling weights... Some say they can not because of smoking other for water or food... but other than that is controlling anger or bad mood of the empty stomach, controlling one's tongue from hurting any one, to control eyes from staring at desire... Above all those to a Muslim he is to Maintain Prayers and Quran Reciting which of course beside it being a
spiritual matter it is meant the
body exercise by the up's and down's of prayers...
as well
as training of tongue & lungs by the Quran Recitation... these beside Tasbih «Praise of Glorify» helps to control one's breathing..
union», which means that what we refer to
as «I» is not something
spiritual inhabiting a material shell, but that the
body is included in this «I».
Some Jewish thinkers became so Hellenised that they came to regard the heavenly bliss of a
spiritual soul
as a much more worthy expression of human destiny than the thought of an endless life in a material
body.
For the
spiritual soul, of course,
as spirit, and
as form of the
body, does not possess two completely different functions but in both its partial functions it has only one, namely, to fulfill its unitary nature
as spirit.