They are
organic unities with a certain, if not absolute, autonomy.
By «liberal theology» I mean the movement in modern Protestantism which during the nineteenth century tried to bring Christian thought into
organic unity with the evolutionary world view, the movements for social reconstruction, and the expectations of «a better world» which dominated the general mind.
Yoga opens up your body and mind in a way that no blocks remain in the chakras and the body begins to exist as
an organic unity with a rhythm that it creates as its own and which purifies it of toxins and prevents disease.
Not exact matches
Whether you are a proponent of
organic church, house church, mega church, or even if you are «Done»
with church, this course will help all of us live in love and
unity as we follow Jesus into the world.
For all entities, elementary particles, atoms, molecules, and so on, are
organic unities, each integrating into itself
organic unities smaller in size
with the differences in size being unproblematical between each level, above or below.11
Initially, Whitehead might seem to identify actual occasions as res vera to the exclusion of persons; however, careful thought, along
with the addition of other Whiteheadian ideas, such as
organic unities, casts doubt on the suspicion that for Whitehead only actual occasions are res vera.
This Christian stress on sociality, which (as we shall see in the next chapter) is the natural reason for the existence of the Christian community as well as of other human groupings, has a close relationship
with the fourth assertion: that each of us is an
organic unity, body - mind - spirit.
There is an
organic unity in whole or healthy persons both within themselves and in their ongoing interaction
with their environment.
Careful reading of Book Z of the Metaphysics, to be sure, makes clear that there are at least two conceptions of substantial form in Aristotle's philosophy: one more Platonic in character whereby the form possesses its own substantial
unity and communicates that
unity to the material elements (stoicheia) from the outside, so to speak; the other apparently originating
with Aristotle himself according to which the substantial form comes into being as it unifies the elements into an
organic whole (cf. TKT 67 - 120).
First the vitalization of matter, associated
with the grouping of molecules; then the hominization of Life, associated
with a super-grouping of cells; and finally the planetization of Mankind, associated
with a closed grouping of people: Mankind, born on this planet and spread over its entire surface, coming gradually to form around its earthly matrix a single, major
organic unity, enclosed upon itself; a single, hyper - complex, hyper - centrated, hyperconscious arch-molecule, co-extensive
with the heavenly body on which it was born.
Marzheuser affirms that «two characteristics of divine catholocity are inner diversity and fullness: a diversity of persons and a fullness of being that makes them one «29 He quotes Avery Dulles
with approval
with remarks, «Catholic suggests the idea of an
organic whole, of a cohesion, of a firm synthesis of a reality which is not scattered, but, on the contrary, turned towards a centre which assures its
unity, whatever the expanse in area or the internal differentiation might be.»
According to the greatest proponent of the
organic model, Edmund Burke, his beloved constitution of England was not «formed upon a regular plan or
with any
unity of design,» but developed «in a great length of time and by a great variety of accidents.»