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The Compatibility of Christianity with Panpsychism, Part 1 theologycommons.gcu.edu Sep 2, 2025 3 facts
quoteIn the Gospels, Christ identifies the greatest commandment as: “you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength,” quoting Deuteronomy 6:5.
claimThe author of 'The Compatibility of Christianity with Panpsychism, Part 1' notes that Christ's distinction between heart, soul, and mind in the greatest commandment raises the question of whether this is a metaphysical distinction or a mere logical distinction.
claimIn 2 Corinthians 4:10, the Apostle Paul expresses an expectation that the eternal life of Christ is manifested within the mortal human body.
Extraterrestrial Intelligence and the Catholic Faith: A Brief History of ... catholicscientists.org 3 facts
claimVorilong argued that while the Son of God has the ability to be incarnate on other worlds an infinite number of times to provide redemption, it would not be fitting for Christ to undergo an infinite series of deaths.
quoteVorilong stated: "If it be inquired whether men exist on that world, and whether they have sinned as Adam sinned, I answer no, for they would not exist in sin and did not spring from Adam. … As to the question whether Christ by dying on this earth could redeem the inhabitants of another world, I answer that he is able to do this even if the worlds were infinite, but it would not be fitting for him to go unto another world that he must die again."
claimCatholic poets Aubrey de Vere and Alice Meynell wrote lyrically about extraterrestrial intelligence and its relationship to Christ.
Mind and Consciousness - St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology saet.ac.uk Jun 20, 2024 2 facts
claimThe belief that Christ is omnipresent and sacramentally present in the Eucharist is more compatible with soul-body dualism than the view that Jesus was only a corporeal, circumscribable, material body.
claimMany Christians believe that Christ, as a member of the Godhead, is omnipresent and made present sacramentally through the Eucharist.
Books - Nigel Kerner nigelkerner.com 1 fact
claimNigel Kerner posits that religious figures such as Christ, Buddha, and Mohammed came to affirm the dominance of non-physical reality and to point out the inferiority of physical reality.