What are the different dimensions on man?

Answer 1

The dimensions of man are built on one's definition of man.

Man - by definition - is a tension filled unity that is capable of infinite possibilities which are both divine and demonic.

If this definition is correct, then one must be able to define the unity from out of which come the infinite possibilities of man that are divine and demonic.

Man is not a dichotomy or trichotomy wherein you can divide man into 2 - 3 parts.

Man is tri-unity in His existence.

Man is animated by what gives life to him and this animating principle is what defines those dimensions of man.

Man is a three dimensional creature: biochemical, psycho-social, and ultimate or spiritual.

The biochemical dimension is his body and what shapes and gives form to him in order for one to identify by others.

The psychic-socio dimension is man's ability to relate, reflect and respond to self, others and God.

The ultimate dimension of man is the one which is not acknowledge by secular disciplines but to their demise.

The ultimate dimension is spiritual and is that by which man can transcend self and relate to those values, principles and persons of the spiritual world.

It is meaningful to speak of man in these three dimensions.

Man has life when at least 2 of the "three dimensions"- biochemical, psychic-socio, and ultimate of existence operate and function but the question as to the highest quality of life is whenever man has all three dimensions existing and functioning

Answer 2

The material dimension of a man refers to the physical part of a human that is his body. While the spiritual dimension deals with the spirit inside the body.