GreenScapularedHuman Posted March 26, 2018 Share Posted March 26, 2018 Is there any meaningful difference between 'spirit' and 'soul' in Catholicism? Do angels/demons have spirits and/or souls? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seven77 Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 First: St. Thomas Aquinas building on classical philosophy says that animals and plants have material souls but human beings have spiritual souls… It's the capacity for union with God (which begins now through grace) that is the spirit of the human being… From the Catechism of the Catholic Church: 367 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 Lord's coming. The Church teaches that this distinction does not introduce a duality into the soul. "Spirit" signifies that from creation man is ordered to a supernatural end and that his soul can gratuitously be raised beyond all it deserves to communion with God. Second: Angels and demons are spiritual beings… they have no material composition like the living creatures animals and plants and humans do… So they don't have souls… http://www.therealpresence.org/archives/Angelology/Angelology_027.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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