Embodiment and Virtue in Gregory of Nyssa - An Anagogical Approach

Zusatztext Boersma offers many interesting insights, based on an intimate acquaintance with Gregory's works. ... in doing so he gives us a salutary reminder of the distance between a fourth-century ontological framework and our own. Informationen zum Autor Hans Boersma holds the J.I. Packer Chair of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, Canada. Before coming to Regent in 2005, he taught for six years at Trinity Western University in nearby Langley. Boersma holds a doctorate from the University of Utrecht. His articles have appeared in numerous journals. His publications include Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross: Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition (Baker Academic), which won the 2005 Christianity Today best theological book of the year award; Nouvelle Théologie and Sacramental Ontology: A Return to Mystery (OUP, 2009); and Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry (Eerdmans, 2011). Klappentext 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, Boersma suggests, the key to Gregory's theology is anagogy-going upward in order to participate in the life of God. Zusammenfassung 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, Boersma suggests, the key to Gregory's theology is anagogy-going upward in order to participate in the life of God. Introduction ; 1. Measured Body ; 2. Textual Body ; 3. Gendered Body ; 4. Dead Body ; 5. Oppressed Body ; 6. Ecclesial Body ; 7. Virtuous Body ; Epilogue

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• Authors: Hans Boersma, Boersma Hans
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2013
• EAN: 9780199641123
• ISBN: 978-0-19-964112-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Spirituality, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, History of Religion, Christian spirituality & religious experience, Spirituality and religious experience, BCE to c 500 CE, The Early Church, BCE period – Protohistory