In conclusion, can we say that the explanations of process theology are generally compatible with Christian beliefs
regarding body and soul?
Process thought is being compatible with the presumptions of Christian faith and is friendly with Christian ideas
regarding body and soul.
Not exact matches
His Self - giving is complete, or as we say with
regard to Christ Our Lord in Holy Communion, it is the «whole Christ» -
Body, Blood,
Soul and Divinity.
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.
The distinction corresponds to some degree to that between
soul and body Agape is disinterested
and impartial, without
regard to persons, while eros is interested love, concerned with this person rather than that
and desirous of the
body of the other.
This shift in practice, together with the judgment that it reflects
regarding the significance of the corporeal
body of Israel, is the heart
and soul of supersessionism.
So long as one does not
regard man as spirit (in which case we can not talk about despair) but only as a synthesis of
soul and body, health is an «immediate» determinant,
and only the sickness of
soul or
body is a dialectical determinant.
In Stoicism, the contradiction between reason
and all else in the
body and soul was carried to an extreme point,
and although reason still claimed kinship with nature
and cosmos, most of what we
regard as «natural» was ruthlessly suppressed.
Regarding the resurrection, a relational view could see the intimate connection between the
body and soul so that what the
body becomes for
and with the
soul, how it enters the
soul's experience, is its resurrection.
Then there are questions
regarding the nature of mind
and matter as such, the concepts of becoming,
and of unchanging natures, the philosophical question of the nature of the substantial
soul and its relation to the
body.
Because Jesus underwent death in all its horror, not only in His
body, but also in His
soul («My God, why hast thou forsaken me»),
and as He is
regarded by the first Christians as the Mediator of salvation, He must indeed be the very one who in His death conquers death itself.
It was perhaps already in contact with speculations
regarding the divine purpose in the creation of the world, the angelic powers, the figures of Adam, Death, Satan or Antichrist, the Heavenly Man, the coming salvation, the relation of spirit
and flesh,
soul and body — speculations which were at least tinged, no doubt, with Gnosticism.
Generis: «For these reasons the Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences
and sacred theology, research
and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with
regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human
body as coming from pre-existent
and living matter - for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that
souls are immediately created by God» [italics added].
These differences
regarding the gametes are, no doubt, correlated with differences in
body structure
and function,
and also, more to our point, with differences of
soul.
Pope Pius XII declared that «the teaching authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences
and sacred theology, research
and discussions... take place with
regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human
body as coming from pre-existent
and living matter --[but] the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that
souls are immediately created by God» (Pius XII, Humani Generis 36)»
In the relation between two, the relation is the third term as a negative unity,
and the two relate themselves to the relation,
and in the relation to the relation; such a relation is that between
soul and body, when man is
regarded as
soul.
EW: Outside of the gallery, which I more
regard as a Project Space, my activity includes a lot of curatorial work, as is evidenced in the upcoming exhibition «
Body and Soul: Performance Art Past
and Present» at the Biennale Arte 2017 in Venice.