The Unity of Body and Soul in Patristic and Byzantine Thought

This volume explores the long-standing tensions between such notions as soul and body, spirit and flesh, in the context of human immortality and bodily resurrection. The discussion revolves around late antique views on the resurrected human body and the relevant philosophical, medical and theological notions that formed the background for this topic. Soon after the issue of the divine-human body had been problematised by Christianity, it began to drift away from vast metaphysical deliberations into a sphere of more specialized bodily concepts, developed in ancient medicine and other natural sciences. To capture the main trends of this interdisciplinary dialogue, the contributions in this volume range from the 2nd to the 8th centuries CE, and discuss an array of figures and topics, including Justin, Origen, Bardais_an, and Gregory of Nyssa.

About the author

Anna Usacheva is a Doctor of Classical Philology and Core Fellow of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Finland.


Jörg Ulrich is Professor of Early Church History at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.


Siam Bhayro is Associate Professor in Early Jewish Studies at the University of Exeter, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Siam Bhayro, Jörg Ulrich
• Assisted by: Siam Bhayro (Editor), Siam Bhayro et al (Editor), Barbara Crostini (Editor), José Filipe Pereira da Silva (Editor), U (Editor), Jör Ulrich (Editor), Jörg Ulrich (Editor), Ann Usacheva (Editor), Anna Usacheva (Editor), Annette Weissenrieder (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill Schöningh
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.01.2021
• EAN: 9783506703392
• ISBN: 978-3-506-70339-2
• No. of pages: 278
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 26 mm x 246 mm
• Weight: 627 g
• Illustrations: 1 Tabellen
• Series: Contexts of Ancient and Medieval Anthropology
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous