In his exalted life Christ unites himself inwardly with human souls and imparts to them his own divinity.
Christ-mysticism appears again in The Gospel According to John, particularly in the farewell discourse (chapters 14 16), where Jesus speaks of his impending death and of his return in the Spirit to unite himself with his followers.
Gaus, for example, appeals to Rousseau's statement that the fundamental problem to which the social contract is meant to be the solution is to find a way of imposing rules to regulate our common life "in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before" (Gaus 2011, 1. Also see Rawls 1996, 219).
"True saving grace is no other than the very love of God; that is, God in one of the persons of the Trinity, uniting himself to the soul of the creature as a vital principle, dwelling there and exerting himself by the faculties of the soul of man,in his own proper nature after the manner of a principle of nature".
"He unites himself with those young people who have lost faith in the church, or even in God because of the counter-witness of Christians and ministers of the Gospel".
Like all souls Christ's had free will, but the intensity of union destroyed all inclination for change, and the Logos united to himself not only soul but also body, as was apparent when Jesus was transfigured.
Uniting himself with this soul, the divine Logos, who is the second hypostasis (Person) of the triad of Father, Son, and Spirit (subordinate to the Father but on the divine side of the gulf between infinite Creator and finite creation), became incarnate in a body derived from the Virgin Mary.
When this correspondent first met Dushman last spring, he spoke of how to keep Ukraine united, and called himself Ukrainian.
They are doing their best to demolish such inclination to a western alliance as survives amongst their remaining Arab friends, such as Nuri Pasha who has already declared himself united with Egypt in its struggle.
Still, in the end, after pointing out many of the flaws and fragilities beneath the surface of the new, united Europe, Judt permits himself an uncharacteristically sanguine moment.
