The Significance of An Integral Anthropology in the Proximity of Death
The Significance of An Integral Anthropology in the Proximity of Death

Summary/Abstract: The living man, as a creature of God, is an organic whole, a unitary ensemble that includes both the physiological and the mental and spiritual domains. As an entity, he is not an intelligence shackled by matter, but a psycho-physiological whole created by God whom he came to redeem through Incarnation, Resurrection and pouring of the Holy Spirit. From the perspective of Eastern theology, the soul, being alive and immortal through the power of God, moves through the death of the body from the state of this world to the state of the “beyond”. All this reveals the meanings of an integral and integrated anthropological approach to the proximity of death, in the sense in which it is particularly important to treat any patient not only procedurally as a physical-chemical structure, but also taking into account his spiritual dimension.

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