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Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God (Hardcover)
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Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Early Christian Texts
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This book presents the first modern critical edition of the work of
Gregory of Nyssa, On the Human Image of God (formerly known as On
the Making of Man, De hominis opificio) and the first English
translation since the nineteenth century. This treatise is one of
the most important of Gregory's texts. Paralleling the structure of
Plato's Timaeus, Gregory's work begins by offering two analyses of
the human being. The first presents the human being as the
culmination of the ascent made by nature through the various levels
of life, and as made, body and soul, in the image of God. The
second considers why this is not immediately apparent, the need for
time to be able to grow, individually and collectively, to this
status, as the body of Christ, the image of God, and the role of
sexuality within this growth. The third part of the work brings
both analyses together, to see the same movement in the life-span
of each person. The extensive introduction provided in this volume
examines the philosophical and theological background of Gregory's
text, beginning with Anaxagoras, Plato (the Timaeus), Philo, and
Origen, and also compares aspects of Gregory's work with that of
Irenaeus of Lyons and Maximos the Confessor.
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