anima mundi
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Introduced was a careful sentence to bring della Porta’s discussion of the soul in line with Christian teaching, and all references to the world soul, the anima mundi, were now carefully turned into quotations.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
The mystics are much inclined to adopt, in a modified form, the old notion of an anima mundi.
From Christian Mysticism by William Ralph Inge
I may mean a mere anima mundi; or an initial principle which once was in action and now is not; or collective humanity.
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by John Henry Newman
He must not surrender himself to the first impulse, else he is betrayed into a mere anima mundi; he must not surrender himself to the second, else he is betrayed into something merely human.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by Thomas De Quincey
Did he mean that the Logos was the anima mundi?
From Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity by Kirsopp Lake
