Sentences with phrase «unity of body and soul»

The discourse here is anthropological (based on the unity of body and soul) and not simply biological.

One locates sex difference in the body and not the soul, giving rise to a dualist ascetical theology; the other locates sex difference in the soul - body composite precisely because of the deep, natural unity of body and soul.

[5] The best explanation of the unity of the body and soul has been Aristotle's, adopted by St Thomas Aquinas, that the soul is the form of the body.

If only the soul survives, then I do not survive, for a human person is someone who is a unity of body and soul, as we noted in the quotation from Gaudium et spes14 above.

Sexuality affects all aspects of the human person in the unity of his body and soul.

• 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 counters the false «ideology of technology [which] is the new absolutism -LSB-... in which] the problems of the human person are reduced to psychological problems -LSB-...] Man is the unity of body and soul.

In my little book As I Lay Dying, I reflected on the unity of body and soul and wrote, «The body remembers.»

Not exact matches

This can be sensed physically, because of the unity between soul and body, and expressed too - always according to the truth of God, and with honest prudence in the light of His grace; we all have to be aware that we live with a fallen nature, that our bodies can be victims of disordered drives.

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.

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.

Thus Holloway is able to preserve the essential distinction between matter and spirit, body and soul, yet maintain the unity of the nature and personality of Man.

When a man stands repentant before the Cross of Christ, does he do so with a man's soul in unity with his body, or must he somehow become «women - sexed and weak»?

The biblical expression for this action is the resurrection of the body, thus preserving the doctrine of the unity of man, and rejecting the conception of the soul as a spiritual entity in man which is naturally endowed with the capacity to persist beyond death.

The Church's official teaching, however, states, «The unity of soul and body is so profound that one has to consider the soul to be the «form» of the body....

The Church clearly still wishes to retain talk of the spiritual soul as was evident at the Second Vatican Council and has been confirmed more recently by the Catechism of the Catholic Church: «The human person, though made of body and soul, is a unity».

Nothing with such a subsistence ceases to exist by the perishing of the body, and therefore there is in the human being that which thinks and understands which does not cease to exist at death, and which I have proved in Chapter XIII - XIV to be the principle of unity of the whole human being, the soul.

It follows at once from the substantial unity of man that all problems are far from being solved when evolution of man's «body» is admitted, and excluded for his «soul».

The immediate creation of the spiritual soul and the substantial unity of man's nature in body and spirit are, of course, Catholic dogmas.

Jesus and Mary were also actualised in the fallen state according to the divine decree of original unity, but unlike us, are always immaculate in the totality of their bodies and souls.

The wisdom of the resurrection, he wrote to Scottish philosopher Norman Kemp Smith in 1940, was «the idea that the fulfillment of life does not mean the negation and destruction of historical reality (which is a unity of body - soul, freedom - necessity, time - eternity) but the completion of this unity.»

The modern mind finds it difficult to grasp how the body and soul could form a kind of unity.

That anthropology conceived of human beings as a psychosomatic unity, body and soul being inseparably united to constitute a person.

To be sure, the mystical tradition has testified to an underlying unity, and has sometimes referred to God as the world - soul; but usually mystics speak of an undifferentiated identity wherein distinctions are obliterated — which is very different from the organized integration of cooperatively interacting parts that characterizes the unity of a body.

With us God directly infuses a spiritual soul, which is a new principle of integration and control bringing a new and higher unity and meaning to the elements that make up the human body.

Indeed, Aristotle's formulation was taken up by the Catholic Church («the unity of soul and body is so profound that one has to consider the soul to be the «form» of the body» proclaims the Catechism at § 365) as part of its official teaching on the relation between the soul and the body.

Indeed, Aristotle's formulation was taken up by the Catholic Church «the unity of soul and body is so profound that one has to consider the soul to be the «form» of the body» proclaims the Catechism at 365) as part of its official teaching on the relation between the soul and the body.

«Anthropological reflection, in fact, leads to the recognition that, by virtue of the substantial unity of body and spirit, the human genome not only has a biological significance, but also possesses anthropological dignity, which has its basis in the spiritual soul that pervades it and gives it life.»

Based on the human - centered philosophy, which aims to vitalize and stimulate the body and soul through a driving experience matched to human sensibilities, Mazda strives to build cars that further heighten the sense of unity between car and driver.