Multiplicity and disunity are as strong a feature of our existence as
psychosomatic unity.
That anthropology conceived of human beings as
a psychosomatic unity, body and soul being inseparably united to constitute a person.
But our modern, indeed very recent, understanding of
the psychosomatic unity comprising a person, and of the deep influence of environmental factors upon personality, raises in acute form the question whether our present personality can be raised individually and clothed upon with a resurrection - body in a resurrection - environment.
But in the modern world several sciences have converged to press home to us the rational conclusion that each individual man is
a psychosomatic unity, a living physical organism whose various organs, both physical and psychical, can only function as part of the total organism.
If so, Christian sex ethics defies the truth — ostensibly its dearest truth — about
the psychosomatic unity of man.
Not exact matches
It could be argued that the Platonic doctrine of the immortality of the soul was simply a refined and highly sophisticated version of that belief in an after - life which had been widespread in the ancient world in one form or another, and which Israel had come almost completely to abandon because of her
psychosomatic view of the
unity of the human individual.
Readings will include classical and contemporary texts to understand and evaluate the clinical relevance and efficacy of any particular approach for promoting the
psychosomatic health and
unity of the individual.