Autore	Reimers Adrian J
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Washington, D.C., : Catholic University of America Press, 2006
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (320 p.)
Disciplina	128/.1
Soggetto topico	Soul - Christianity Christianity - Psychology
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8132-1669-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910455914903321

Autore	Reimers Adrian J
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Washington, D.C., : Catholic University of America Press, 2006
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (320 p.)
Disciplina	128/.1
Soggetto topico	Soul - Christianity Christianity - Psychology
ISBN	0-8132-1669-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part One. THE CENTRAL ISSUE -- 1. The Status of the Question -- A Nature Divided -- The Heart of the Question: The Reality of the Spiritual -- An Integrated Vision -- The Present Project -- Part Two. THE MATERIAL AND THE SPIRITUAL -- 2. The Existence and Essence of Material Things -- Materiality and Matter -- Materialism -- Being and Existence -- Essence: What a Thing Is -- Significance and Meaning -- The Nature of Physical Things -- Conclusion -- 3. Spirit and the Spiritual -- The Characteristics of the Spiritual -- The Good as Good -- The True as True -- Being as Being -- Beauty -- Status and Characteristics of the Spiritual in Human Nature -- Part Three. Spiritual Action of the Material Being -- 4. The Power to Know -- Belief -- Ideas and Habits -- Two Senses of Truth -- The Mind as a Sign -- 5. Love, Consciousness, and the Power to Choose -- Values and Action -- Habit, Will, and the Practical Dialectic -- Practical Syllogism: Consciousness and the Spiritual -- "A Sign Developing" and "The Meaning of Life" -- Consciousness Puzzles -- Understanding, Belief, and Personality -- Consciousness, Values, and the Self -- Part Four. Metaphysical Conclusions -- 6. Reality and Nature of the Soul -- Materiality and Materialism -- That Human Being Cannot Be Reduced to, or Explained as, a Purely Physical System -- The Immaterial Basis for Human Action -- The Soul: Real and Immaterial -- The Soul's Mode of Being -- Epilogue: God, the Person, and the Afterlife -- The Soul and God -- Light and the Powers of the Soul -- The Soul's Experience Postmortem -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910957646503321