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Human Wholeness |
| Name: |
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Jim |
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Jun 17, 06 - 10:02 AM |
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ferriswheelcollapseoverbluefairy@yahoo.com |
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Mankind in individual persons are integral beings of the physical, cognitive, emotional, intellectual and spiritual. Man is a psychosomatic unity, not a spirit occupying a body, or merely reduced to biological matter or physiology. Because of the loss of grace due to Original Sin, whereby the Redemption and Resurrection continually restores the divine image in man whenever man cooperates with grace, man still suffers an internal division requiring healing and integration. Grace perfects nature through the intermediary in accord with that nature. Man's knowledge is derived initially through sensory impressions, filtered through perceptions according to the degree and extent of experience, memory, imagination and discursive reasoning. Every apphrensive power, then, has a corresponding appetitive,or accompanying feeling such that when man senses and perceives an external good of reality he experiences a desiring love terminating in pleasurable joy. Man is responding to the goodness of creation. A similiar process occurs when encountering anything contrary to the natural good, whereby aversion, fear, anger and sadness result. A disintegration occurs when the emotional life of man is not directed or guided by his intellect, will or formation of conscience. Knowledge of particular goods may then be informed and elevated by intellectual intuition of the universal good, so that man can experience a greater joy beyond what is useful or harmful to him. Man can therefore reason to the existence of God; however, faith is necessary to know God's essence. Once the universal emerges in understanding, then the particulars can be seen in a new light. |
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