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
Did he mean that the Logos was the anima mundi?
From Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity by Lake, Kirsopp
Wordsworth was the fellow who hit upon the idea of the anima mundi.
From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper
It included in itself the Platonic theory of Ideas, the diffused Logos or anima mundi of the Stoics, and the Oriental angelology or doctrine of intermediate beings between God and man.
From The Gospels in the Second Century An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work Entitled 'Supernatural Religion' by Sanday, William
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 De Quincey, Thomas
