Catechism index

361 Paragraph 6. MAN "This law of human solidarity and charity", 228 without excluding the rich variety of persons, cultures and peoples, assures us that all men are truly brethren. II. "BODY AND SOUL BUT TRULY …
362 Paragraph 6. MAN The human person, created in the image of God, is a being at once corporeal and spiritual. the biblical account expresses this reality in symbolic language when it affirms that "then the …
363 Paragraph 6. MAN In Sacred Scripture the term "soul" often refers to human life or the entire human person. 230 But "soul" also refers to the innermost aspect of man, that which is of greatest …
364 Paragraph 6. MAN The human body shares in the dignity of "the image of God": it is a human body precisely because it is animated by a spiritual soul, and it is the whole human …
365 Paragraph 6. MAN The unity of soul and body is so profound that one has to consider the soul to be the "form" of the body: 234 i.e., it is because of its spiritual soul …
366 Paragraph 6. MAN The Church teaches that every spiritual soul is created immediately by God - it is not "produced" by the parents - and also that it is immortal: it does not perish when …
367 Paragraph 6. MAN Sometimes the soul is distinguished from the spirit: St. Paul for instance prays that God may sanctify his people "wholly", with "spirit and soul and body" kept sound and blameless at the …
368 Paragraph 6. MAN The spiritual tradition of the Church also emphasizes the heart, in the biblical sense of the depths of one's being, where the person decides for or against God. 239 III. "MALE AND …
369 Paragraph 6. MAN Man and woman have been created, which is to say, willed by God: on the one hand, in perfect equality as human persons; on the other, in their respective beings as man …
370 Paragraph 6. MAN In no way is God in man's image. He is neither man nor woman. God is pure spirit in which there is no place for the difference between the sexes. But the …
371 Paragraph 6. MAN God created man and woman together and willed each for the other. the Word of God gives us to understand this through various features of the sacred text. "It is not good …
372 Paragraph 6. MAN Man and woman were made "for each other" - not that God left them half-made and incomplete: he created them to be a communion of persons, in which each can be "helpmate" …
373 Paragraph 6. MAN In God's plan man and woman have the vocation of "subduing" the earth 248 as stewards of God. This sovereignty is not to be an arbitrary and destructive domination. God calls man …
374 Paragraph 6. MAN The first man was not only created good, but was also established in friendship with his Creator and in harmony with himself and with the creation around him, in a state that …
375 Paragraph 6. MAN The Church, interpreting the symbolism of biblical language in an authentic way, in the light of the New Testament and Tradition, teaches that our first parents, Adam and Eve, were constituted in …
376 Paragraph 6. MAN By the radiance of this grace all dimensions of man's life were confirmed. As long as he remained in the divine intimacy, man would not have to suffer or die. 252 The …
377 Paragraph 6. MAN The "mastery" over the world that God offered man from the beginning was realized above all within man himself: mastery of self. the first man was unimpaired and ordered in his whole …
378 Paragraph 6. MAN The sign of man's familiarity with God is that God places him in the garden. 255 There he lives "to till it and keep it". Work is not yet a burden, 256 …
379 Paragraph 6. MAN This entire harmony of original justice, foreseen for man in God's plan, will be lost by the sin of our first parents. IN BRIEF
380 Paragraph 6. MAN "Father,. . . you formed man in your own likeness and set him over the whole world to serve you, his creator, and to rule over all creatures" (Roman Missal, EP IV, …