Sentences with phrase «virtue of their spiritual nature»

He contended in Fides et Ratio that anthropology is the nexus of the two Thomisms: «Metaphysics should not be seen as an alternative to anthropology, since it is metaphysics which makes it possible to ground the concept of personal dignity in virtue of their spiritual nature.

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It is worth noting here that in the Christian metaphysics of creation too, to which Thomas Aquinas can once again serve as an example, the process of nature is regarded as ultimately determined by spirit and by cognition in virtue of its fundamental goal - directedness.9 But in this tradition it is exclusively the creative spirit of God that as First Cause is operative in creatures and gives direction to their becoming, instead of a spiritual principle belonging to the natural beings themselves.

The 1985 Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Instruction on Respect for Human Life states, «By virtue of its substantial union with a spiritual soul, the human body can not be... evaluated in the same way as the body of animals... The natural moral law expresses and lays down the purposes, rights and duties which are based upon the bodily and spiritual nature of the human person.»