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Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God

Behr John
Innbundet / 2023 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780192843975
Published
2023
Publisher
Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press
Weight
704 gr
Height
240 mm
Width
160 mm
Thickness
25 mm
Age
UP, 05
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
382

Edited by
Behr John

Biographical note

John Behr is the Regius Professor of Humanity at the University of Aberdeen, having previously taught at St Vladimir's Seminary, where he served as Dean for a decade. He is also a part-time Professor at Radboud University, the Netherlands. He has published numerous monographs with OUP, most recently an edition and translation of Origen's On First Principles, together with an extensive introduction (2017), and a study of the Gospel of John, John the Theologian and his Paschal Gospel, (2019); he has also published various works aimed for a more general audience, such as his more poetic and meditative work entitled Becoming Human: Theological Anthropology in Word and Image (SVS Press).

Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God

Behr John
Innbundet / 2023 / Engelsk
Behr John
Innbundet / 2023 / Engelsk
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The volume will be useful to the patristic scholar,...Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

Choice

The treatise is offered to an interlocutor, Peter, as a gift. In conveying so vividly Gregory's wonder, illuminating groundbreaking textual parallels and relating this difficult treatise in accessible terms, Behr offers readers another.

Times Literary Supplement

Bringing into attention both an author and a work that are relevant for the contemporary theological space: Gregory of Nyssa, On the Human Image of God, Oxford edition from 2023 realized by John Behr is not only an interesting and necessary book for the Christian space, but also for the contemporary universal culture.

Iuliu-Marius Morariu, Anuario de Historia de la Iglesia

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Bringing into attention both an author and a work that are relevant for the contemporary theological space: Gregory of Nyssa, On the Human Image of God, Oxford edition from 2023 realized by John Behr is not only an interesting and necessary book for the Christian space, but also for the contemporary universal culture.

Iuliu-Marius Morariu, Anuario de Historia de la Iglesia

This edition is recommended as compulsory reading for the contemporary study of On the Human Image.

Sophia Theodoratos, Phronema 39

Behr is to be thanked for making this important text available in considerably improved form and for giving important clues for its interpretation. It is to be hoped that scholars will make ample use of this resource. Gregory's treatise is one of the most remarkable products of late ancient Christian anthropology and deserves careful and sustained study.

Johannes Zachhuber, The Thomist

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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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.
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Abbreviations Introduction 1: The Text, Manuscripts, and Editions 1.I: Manuscripts used in this Edition 1.II: Title 1.III: Headings and Divisions 2: Philosophical and Theological Background 2.I: Anaxagoras 2.II: Plato 2.III: Philo 2.IV: Origen 3: Gregory's Treatise On the Human Image of God 3.I: The Letter to Peter 3.II: The Human Image of God (1-15) 3.III: The Prevision and Provision of God (16-29) 3.IV: The Life of the Human Being (30) 3.V: The 'Fall' and 'Male and Female' Manuscripts, Abbreviations, Sigla, and Translation Gregory of Nyssa, On the Human Image of God Appendix Bibliography Index of Ancient Sources Index of Modern Authors Cited
Read more
John Behr is the Regius Professor of Humanity at the University of Aberdeen, having previously taught at St Vladimir's Seminary, where he served as Dean for a decade. He is also a part-time Professor at Radboud University, the Netherlands. He has published numerous monographs with OUP, most recently an edition and translation of Origen's On First Principles, together with an extensive introduction (2017), and a study of the Gospel of John, John the Theologian and his Paschal Gospel, (2019); he has also published various works aimed for a more general audience, such as his more poetic and meditative work entitled Becoming Human: Theological Anthropology in Word and Image (SVS Press).
Read more
Provides the first modern critical edition Features the first translation into English since the nineteenth century Includes an extensive introduction, setting the work within its scriptural and philosophical background Opens up an early Christian understanding of creation and what it is to be human, by a central figure in the history of theology, very different to what is generally assumed thereafter
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The volume will be useful to the patristic scholar,...Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

Choice

The treatise is offered to an interlocutor, Peter, as a gift. In conveying so vividly Gregory's wonder, illuminating groundbreaking textual parallels and relating this difficult treatise in accessible terms, Behr offers readers another.

Times Literary Supplement

Bringing into attention both an author and a work that are relevant for the contemporary theological space: Gregory of Nyssa, On the Human Image of God, Oxford edition from 2023 realized by John Behr is not only an interesting and necessary book for the Christian space, but also for the contemporary universal culture.

Iuliu-Marius Morariu, Anuario de Historia de la Iglesia

See all

Bringing into attention both an author and a work that are relevant for the contemporary theological space: Gregory of Nyssa, On the Human Image of God, Oxford edition from 2023 realized by John Behr is not only an interesting and necessary book for the Christian space, but also for the contemporary universal culture.

Iuliu-Marius Morariu, Anuario de Historia de la Iglesia

This edition is recommended as compulsory reading for the contemporary study of On the Human Image.

Sophia Theodoratos, Phronema 39

Behr is to be thanked for making this important text available in considerably improved form and for giving important clues for its interpretation. It is to be hoped that scholars will make ample use of this resource. Gregory's treatise is one of the most remarkable products of late ancient Christian anthropology and deserves careful and sustained study.

Johannes Zachhuber, The Thomist

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.
Read more
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.
Read more
Abbreviations Introduction 1: The Text, Manuscripts, and Editions 1.I: Manuscripts used in this Edition 1.II: Title 1.III: Headings and Divisions 2: Philosophical and Theological Background 2.I: Anaxagoras 2.II: Plato 2.III: Philo 2.IV: Origen 3: Gregory's Treatise On the Human Image of God 3.I: The Letter to Peter 3.II: The Human Image of God (1-15) 3.III: The Prevision and Provision of God (16-29) 3.IV: The Life of the Human Being (30) 3.V: The 'Fall' and 'Male and Female' Manuscripts, Abbreviations, Sigla, and Translation Gregory of Nyssa, On the Human Image of God Appendix Bibliography Index of Ancient Sources Index of Modern Authors Cited
Read more
John Behr is the Regius Professor of Humanity at the University of Aberdeen, having previously taught at St Vladimir's Seminary, where he served as Dean for a decade. He is also a part-time Professor at Radboud University, the Netherlands. He has published numerous monographs with OUP, most recently an edition and translation of Origen's On First Principles, together with an extensive introduction (2017), and a study of the Gospel of John, John the Theologian and his Paschal Gospel, (2019); he has also published various works aimed for a more general audience, such as his more poetic and meditative work entitled Becoming Human: Theological Anthropology in Word and Image (SVS Press).
Read more
Provides the first modern critical edition Features the first translation into English since the nineteenth century Includes an extensive introduction, setting the work within its scriptural and philosophical background Opens up an early Christian understanding of creation and what it is to be human, by a central figure in the history of theology, very different to what is generally assumed thereafter
Read more

Product details

ISBN
9780192843975
Published
2023
Publisher
Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press
Weight
704 gr
Height
240 mm
Width
160 mm
Thickness
25 mm
Age
UP, 05
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
382

Edited by
Behr John

Biographical note

John Behr is the Regius Professor of Humanity at the University of Aberdeen, having previously taught at St Vladimir's Seminary, where he served as Dean for a decade. He is also a part-time Professor at Radboud University, the Netherlands. He has published numerous monographs with OUP, most recently an edition and translation of Origen's On First Principles, together with an extensive introduction (2017), and a study of the Gospel of John, John the Theologian and his Paschal Gospel, (2019); he has also published various works aimed for a more general audience, such as his more poetic and meditative work entitled Becoming Human: Theological Anthropology in Word and Image (SVS Press).

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