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Demarest argues that human beings have been made by God in his own image with
"vast capacities for living intellectually, volitionally, emotionally, morally, relationally, and
functionally. . . . For the Christian, the path of connectedness to God involves the development
of a Christlike mind, will, affections (or emotions), character, relationships, and actions. When
any of these capacities is undernourished, our spiritual growth is stunted" [BD, 51]. Heart
knowledge of God, a crucial outcome of spiritual formation, necessarily involves "loving God
with all our faculties of thinking, intuiting, wiling, feeling and relating" [BD, 96]. Thus
"Christian spirituality involves the whole person: head, heart, and hands or knowing, being,
and doing" [BD, 292] and indeed "integrates the whole person" [BD, 296].