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Full Idea
The manner of contact of spirit with body, which produces a living being, is utterly amazing and beyond our powers of comprehension
Gist of Idea
The contact of spirit and body is utterly amazing, and incomprehensible
Source
Augustine (City of God [c.427], XXI.10)
Book Ref
Augustine: 'City of God', ed/tr. O'Meara,John [Penguin 1984], p.986
A Reaction
This leads to a rather clear objection against a theory which needs a miracle to explain a common natural phenomenon. At least Augustine was beginning to recognise that interaction is a bit of a problem.
| 3912 | I must exist in order to be mistaken, so that even if I am mistaken, I can't be wrong about my own existence [Augustine] |
| 6683 | The contact of spirit and body is utterly amazing, and incomprehensible [Augustine] |