In Jesus, God makes us one and makes us whole by entering into intimate union with us.
She has, for thirty years, been a partner in an intimate union of two who share a bed, a bank account, vacations (they especially like "outdoor fucking"), squabbles, a workplace — a "couple culture," as she puts it — and who have for a decade been legally wed.
Among the Dinka, sacrifices of cows announce every marriage, and life is lived in a particularly intimate union with their herds.
Descartes's conviction that, despite their intimate union in this life, mind is really distinct from body sprang from his confidence in the cogito argument.
Her research integrates ethnographic and demographic approaches and examines the roles that poverty and intergenerational family dynamics play in the intimate unions of low-income mothers, the lives of African American men and boys, and the accelerated life course transitions of children, adolescents, and adults in urban and rural families.
"It is not denied," he adds, "that there may be something unknown to us in the union God has brought about between our soul and our body"; what we do know, however, suffices to show that the mind is not related to the body as a pilot to his ship, but rather that the two are united in "a greater and more intimate union" by which they form a single whole (Examen, OA, 38 141).
Perhaps more than any generation before, we grew up in an age in which consumption and identity formed an intimate union.
This intimate union requires intimin in the outer membrane of the bacterium and Tir embedded into the epithelial cell membrane.
But had Descartes reflected more closely on the intimate union of the mind and body in man, he would have concluded with Desgabets, that our ideas of body and mind are equally clear, and equally evident.
The intimate union of the spouses finds a purpose in love.
In this exchange, language is "the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas" (N III, 32 21 24).
