Sentences with phrase «creatures of body and soul»

By the deliberate choice of evil, the first generation of human beings did not just lose «preternatural gifts», they tore themselves away from their true source of control and direction, damaging their own integration and ontological harmony as creatures of body and soul.

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Given His onto - logical primacy, in his uncreated Personality and his created body and soul, it would be il - logical, in the deepest sense of the term (i.e. contrary to the Logos), if the conception of the Creator's human nature were subject to that creaturely power of co-creation by which new creatures are brought into being, for this is a fundamental aspect of human procreation.

As a body is an organism made up of many members, and it is held together by one soul, so, in my opinion, the whole world is a kind of huge and immense living creature which is united by one soul, namely the power and reason of God.

We can go much further and say that the whole cosmos will only make sense, even as a material equation, within a higher Wisdom or «Law» that relates all creatures to the Creator; relates body and soul in Man as one creature without confusion of orders, and Man to God as his true environment; and, finally relates all Creation and the whole of humanity to God Incarnate in Christ as their source and their goal.

Creatures with bodies as well as minds and souls were the crowning glory of God's creation described in Genesis.

I take Plato as on my side in this when he says that in God is both being and becoming, both permanence and novelty, a closed past and an open future, also that God cares about the creatures, thus siding in advance against Aristotle's unmoved mover, taken as the God of religion.14 What moves things is at least «self - moved,» and is soul, including the supreme and cosmic soul, God, whose body is all else than cosmic soul and other than forms.

Sin made the spiritual creature break away from communion with God and urge its wholeself, body and soul, into a pattern of rebellion against the great Law by which all things are meant to be ordered and directed to their end.

In Fr David Barrett's September 2007 article in this Magazine «The Church and Sacramentality», he explained Edward Holloway's definition of a sacrament as «the enfleshing... of an objective gift of God,... in Christ, enwrapped in matter as befits... the economy of God who became enwrapt with a human soul and body for the perfection and the beatification of His creature.»

We're creatures of body, mind, heart and soul, which means that we may have to address our weight challenges in any or all of these realms.

It has been prepared for you with all of the creature comforts available, for mind, body, and soul.