The Human Being as a Cosmoteandric Reality

Abstract

Although the anthropological theology has made every effort to overcome the dualism of body a nd soul in its perception of the human being, it is still bound by the influence of the Hellenistic thinking on Christian theology. It is also necessary to go beyond the unity professed by Vatican II in GS 22. In this sense, it is worthy to take note of the relevant contribution given by Raimon Panikkar when he thinks the human being as a non-dual unity framed within de cosmoteandric intuition of reality as a condition which affords him to say that “man is body, soul and spirit”. Such axiom not only shows his relational nature (because Man is a person) linking his essence with God and the World, but because this axiom takes us back to the original essence of the Semitic thinking gathered not only in the Old Testament (basar, néfesh, rúah) but also in the New Testament (soma, psyche y pneuma). In other words, we are speaking about the Trinitarian dimension of the human being present in our tradition but also in other primordial religious traditions.