The Image of God in the Theology of Gregory of Nazianzus

AvGabrielle Thomas

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Gregory of Nazianzus, known best for his Christology and Trinitarian doctrine, presents an incomparable vision of the image of God. In this book, Gabrielle Thomas offers a close analysis of his writings and demonstrates how Nazianzen depicts both the nature and experience of the image of God throughout his corpus. She argues that Nazianzen's vision of the human person as an image of God is best understood in light of biblical and extra-biblical themes. To establish the breadth of his approach, Thomas analyzes the image of God against the backdrop of Nazianzen's beliefs about Christology, Pneumatology, creation, sin, spiritual warfare, ethics, and theosis. Interpreted accordingly, Nazianzen offers a dynamic and multifaceted account of the image of God, which has serious implications both for Cappadocian studies and contemporary theological anthropology.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-06-06
Mått:157 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt:440 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108482196

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Gabrielle Thomas is a post-doctoral fellow at University of Durham.

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'Gabrielle Thomas offers us a fresh, profound, and insightful treatment of how Gregory the Theologian understands the human being as 'in the image of God' and how this relates to our call to deification. Emphatic that the 'image' extends to the whole human being, Gregory, as Thomas shows, sees the body itself, in its vulnerability and weakness, and so its openness to the divine, as an integral part of the human being fashioned into the image of God, that is, Christ himself. This book is a very welcome addition to the literature on Gregory and patristic anthropology and spirituality more generally.' John Behr, Georges Florovsky Distinguished Professor of Patristics, St Vladimir's Seminary, New York and Metropolitan Kallistos Chair of Orthodox Theology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

Innehållsförteckning

1. Being an image of God; 2. Jesus Christ, the identical image; 3. Creation of the image of God; 4. The image of God and the devil; 5. Theosis and the divine image.