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Embodiment and Virtue in Gregory of Nyssa - An Anagogical Approach (Paperback)
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Embodiment and Virtue in Gregory of Nyssa - An Anagogical Approach (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
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Embodiment in the theology of Gregory of Nyssa is a much-debated
topic. Hans Boersma argues that this-worldly realities of time and
space, which include embodiment, are not the focus of Gregory's
theology. Instead, embodiment plays a distinctly subordinate role.
The key to his theology, Boersma suggests, is anagogy, going upward
in order to participate in the life of God. This book looks at a
variety of topics connected to embodiment in Gregory's thought:
time and space; allegory; gender, sexuality, and virginity; death
and mourning; slavery, homelessness, and poverty; and the church as
the body of Christ. In each instance, Boersma maintains, Gregory
values embodiment only inasmuch as it enables us to go upward in
the intellectual realm of the heavenly future. Boersma suggests
that for Gregory embodiment and virtue serve the anagogical pursuit
of otherworldly realities. Countering recent trends in scholarship
that highlight Gregory's appreciation of the goodness of creation,
this book argues that Gregory looks at embodiment as a means for
human beings to grow in virtue and so to participate in the divine
life. It is true that, as a Christian thinker, Gregory regards the
creator-creature distinction as basic. But he also works with the
distinction between spirit and matter. And Nyssen is convinced that
in the hereafter the categories of time and space will
disappear-while the human body will undergo an inconceivable
transformation. This book, then, serves as a reminder of the
profoundly otherworldly cast of Gregory's theology.
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