Not exact matches
And what I always find is a kind of real - time performance art — dynamic interactions between our frontline crews and constantly shifting casts of customers, with the overriding goal of ensuring that when customers exit our «stage,» they are nourished in soul as well as bo
And what I always find is a kind
of real - time performance art — dynamic interactions between our frontline crews
and constantly shifting casts of customers, with the overriding goal of ensuring that when customers exit our «stage,» they are nourished in soul as well as bo
and constantly shifting casts
of customers, with the overriding goal
of ensuring that when customers exit our «stage,» they are nourished in
soul as well
as body.
So whether the human
body was specially created or developed, Catholics are required to hold
as a matter
of Catholic faith that the human
SOUL is specially created; it did not evolve,
and it is not inherited from our parents,
as our physical
bodies are.
On that day the interior motions
of the
soul and the motions
of the
body will course
as one fluid movement when virtue begets beauty
and beauty reveals virtue.
Rather than viewing it
as a sign
of sin or mistrust, let's view it
as a temporary messenger, designed to slow us down
and reorient our minds,
bodies and souls towards the peace
and the freedom that Christ promised.
(By the way, we believe in pre-mortal existence where we were born
as spirit children, which we also believe in every living thing having a
soul two but anyways thats not revelant...) Which was when they were at the «drawing board»
of the plan
of Earth
and everything
and how they were going to do everything i.e. who was going to be the savior (because every
body needs an atonement so we can go back
and repent).
Just
as Hitler was a failure in his attempt to destroy the
body of the Jewish people, the White Rose,
and the moral interest
of many Germans today in it, will hopefully show that Hitler also failed to destroy the
soul of the German people.
In my little book
As I Lay Dying, I reflected on the unity
of body and soul and wrote, «The
body remembers.»
He makes some surprising claims in the chapter on human beings, arguing for a strong Cartesian dualism
of soul and body for humans, but claiming that dogs
and cats have immaterial
souls as well.
The second is eternal conscious torment rather than conditional immortality (aka anihilationism),
and Jesus said «fear him who can DESTROY both
body and soul in hell»
and Psalm 37:20 «But the wicked shall perish,
and the enemies
of the Lord shall be
as the fat
of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.»
Christian asceticism is unique because, while it acknowledges the
body and soul as good, it realises that they must be disciplined
and put at the service
of one another, in order that the full person will be made capable
of elevation to glory.
As he finds the self - oblation
and self - immolation
of Christ in the Mass, he knows that «in the likeness
of Christ, he has to give himself,
body and soul, to be «bread broken for you» in the ministry
of Christ.»
«If anyone asserts that Adam's sin affected him alone
and not his descendants also, or at least if he declares that it is only the death
of the
body which is the punishment for sin,
and not also that sin, which is the death
of the
soul, passed through one man to the whole human race, he does injustice to God
and contradicts the Apostle, who says, «Therefore
as sin came into the world through one man
and death through sin,
and so death spread to all men because all men sinned» (Rom.
That doctrine embraces the whole
of man, composed
as he is
of body and soul.
As we are all a part
of God, the only place our
souls go after the human
body dies
and rots, is back to that
of which we are all a part!
The
soul is truly the «form»
of the
body as defined by the Church, for in this the unique
and supreme case matter
and form must be really distinct within the unity
of the one being.
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?
This role is fulfilled by her being fully assumed into heaven
body and soul as the first fruit
of Christ's redemption, the pledge
and realisation
of the victory
of Christ's work for us.
Every day millions
of faithful
souls in monasteries
and back pews
and small apartments exercise the priesthood
of all believers in prayer practices that bring life to the church
as the beating heart brings blood to the
body.
Hebrew thought developed this idea rather than immortality, first, because the Hebrews had a vivid sense
of the goodness
of material bodily existence;
and second, because they understood the necessary unity
of the person not
as a
soul - in -
body but
as a whole living, feeling, thinking personality.
One
of the few things I really know is that my state
of being takes form
and definition,
and therefore meaning, only in relationship,
as my
body and soul take on the mystery
of personhood.
Christian eschatology, he answers, has a similar playful focus, i.e., it must be viewed
as «totally without purpose,
as a hymn
of praise for unending joy,
as an ever varying round dance
of the redeemed in the trinitarian fullness
of God,
and as the complete harmony
of soul and body.»
As Moses kept the children
of Israel alive on manna in the wilderness, so Jesus is prepared to feed them now with bread from heaven which will provide them with strength,
body and soul, for everlasting life (Matt.
He never thought, after the Greek fashion,
of soul as pure being, capable
of disembodiment, but spoke,
as his Jewish contemporaries did,
of future life in terms
of bodily resurrection,
and on that basis he discussed life after death with the skeptical Sadducees, protesting only against the popular, contemporary ways
of conceiving the raised
body and its uses in the next world.
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.
Building on the Platonic understanding
of hell
as the place where unpunished violations
of justice are requited, Schall argues it is the consequence
of our free will («the other side
of human dignity»)
and of the significance
of human action, opening up trains
of thought in the direction
of the immortality
of the
soul and the resurrection
of the
body -
and finding this all pleasurable, «even amusing» (p. 121) in terms
of logic
and reason.
When a man dies that whole thing dies; that is to say, that subsistent thing, made up
of body and soul, perishes
as the
soul is separated from the
body.
Indeed, the classical Aristotelian nature
and the Christian idea
of the human being
as body and soul united
as an indivisible
and integrated whole are excluded from the outset.
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.
Finally, the priest lowered it to her lips
and said,
as he had to the others, «The blood
of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was shed for thee, preserve thy
body and soul unto everlasting life.»
He has been setting out his basic position that the
soul is the actuality
of a
body and that, therefore, certain functions («parts»)
of the
soul are inseparable from its
body, such
as, its nutritive function.
The complex
of ordered energy that is the human
body centred on the brain must itself be integrated through its own individual principle
of transcendental control
and direction - the centred knowing
and loving
as person which we call our «
soul».
It is a grand
and unique attempt to synthesise modern science with the history
and philosophy
of science
of neo-scholastics such
as Etienne Gilson, the metaphysics
and theology
of Hans Urs von Balthasar, the mysticism
of Eckhart,
and Henri de Lubac's retrieval
of the pre-Augustinian tripartite (
body -
soul - spirit) anthropology.
Although Plato nowhere employs that exact image, he does speak
of the
soul as residing in the
body as if in a prison
and of the
body as the sepulchre
of the
soul (see Phaedo62B3 - 4, Gorgias493A2 - 3,
and Cratylus400B11 - C10).
All
of a sudden, «The
soul knew in its very depths that it was living a lie,
and this knowledge, together with the will to perform could only be communicated to the
body as a resistance against its law
of total obedience to the universal law
of the Good
and the True.»
As Selvaggi writes, «the nature
of consecrated virginity [is] holiness
of body and soul, the one inseparable from the other, both for the glory
of God in humble service
and modest living in a stable way
of life.»
• the capacity to reach objective
and universal truth
as well
as valid metaphysical knowledge; • the unity
of body and soul in man; • the dignity
of the human person; • relations between nature
and freedom; • the importance
of natural law
and of the «sources
of morality,»... •
and the necessary conformity
of civil law to moral law.
This is to say much the same thing
as that the
soul is subsistent but
as a genuine part: the directing part
of the complete person, who is made up
of soul and body.
Certainly, since these faculties
of the
soul are dependent upon the health
of the physical brain,
and the brain is dying
as a result
of being part
of the physical
body, our imagination, memory, reason,
and emotions are not used to their full capabilities.
As a consequence, the old theology de-emphasized or conveniently ignored the fact of the resurrection of the body and the redemption of material creation and spoke instead and almost exclusively of the salvation of the soul pictured as being supratemporal and metaphysica
As a consequence, the old theology de-emphasized or conveniently ignored the fact
of the resurrection
of the
body and the redemption
of material creation
and spoke instead
and almost exclusively
of the salvation
of the
soul pictured
as being supratemporal and metaphysica
as being supratemporal
and metaphysical.
The ancients, too, vaguely sensed these difficulties,
and always imagined the spirit or
soul as having some
body or form, even though,
of necessity, it had to be
of a ghostly or ethereal «substance»,
and pictured a spirit or
soul world in which the
soul found community.
a deep resignation to God's will, a surrender
of ourselves,
soul and body, to Him; hoping indeed, that we shall be saved, but fixing our eyes more earnestly on Him than on ourselves; that is, acting for His glory, seeking to please Him, devoting ourselves to Him in all manly obedience
and strenuous good works;
and, when we do look within, thinking
of ourselves with a certain abhorrence
and contempt
as being sinners, mortifying our flesh, scourging our appetites,
and composedly awaiting that time when, if we be worthy, we shall be stripped
of our present selves,
and new made in the kingdom
of Christ.
The contact with Zoroastrianism, which was the dominant religion within the Achaemenid Empire founded by Cyrus the Great,
as well
as Hellenic thought led to incorporation
of religious ideas from those cultures into Judaism, including the development
of notions
of an immaterial
and immortal
soul distinct from the
body and a moralized afterlife.
He saw the
soul as the source
of movement in every
body which moved
of itself,
and because the
soul is thus self - moving, it must be unbegotten
and immortal.
This dimension
of Hellenism is an important source
of much
of our traditional dualisms, such
as soul -
body and the denigration
of worldliness, which in part was adopted by the Christian tradition.
Lucretius thought that the
soul nestled in the human breast; Descartes located it in the pineal gland;
and process theologian John Cobb, following Alfred North Whitehead, hopes to find mind wandering
as a thread through the «interstices
of the brain,» But if we are truly dealing with metaphysics, then the mind
and the
soul, like the risen Christ, will not be anywhere, but holistically related to the
body.
He emphasizes the affirmation
of the goodness
of the material world, the refusal to regard the
body as evil,
and the significance
of the resurrection doctrine in opposition to the Greek views
of the immortality
of the
soul.
Hartshorne describes the
soul -
body analogy for the relationship
of God
and world
as follows:
Nevertheless, influenced by more atomistic modes
of thinking inherited from the Greeks, many Christians came to think
of the self
as a
soul isolated from the
body and cut off from the world by the boundaries
of the skin, an immortal substance in a perishable
body.
Referring to Plato's depiction
of a «world
soul» in the Timaeus, Hartshorne posits that just
as people have a mutual relationship
of response
and reaction between the cells
of their
body and themselves, there is a similar mutual relationship
of feeling between God
and cell - like elements within the world: atoms, cells, people.