On Making Fleshly Difference: Humanity and Animality in Gregory of Nyssa
This essay explores the theological stakes of differentiating humanity from animality in Gregory of Nyssa’s treatise De hominis opificio. Gregory’s conviction that the imago dei names an essential affinity to the angelic in human beings corresponds to his need to categorically differentiate humanity...
| Published in: | Relegere |
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| Subtitles: | Special Issue: Transforming Biblical Animals |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Otago, Department of Theology and Religion
[2018]
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Relegere
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Gregorius, Nyssenus 335-394, De opificio hominis
/ Human being
/ Animals
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| RelBib Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity |
| Further subjects: | B
Human-animal Distinction; Image of God; Genesis
B Human-animal Distinction B Image of God B Genesis |
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| Summary: | This essay explores the theological stakes of differentiating humanity from animality in Gregory of Nyssa’s treatise De hominis opificio. Gregory’s conviction that the imago dei names an essential affinity to the angelic in human beings corresponds to his need to categorically differentiate humanity from animality. Yet, human affinity to God and the angels persistently threatens to collapse into beastly behavior and dispositions. Despite all Gregory’s efforts to shore up human uniqueness, human animality plays an indispensable (though disavowed) role in his theological anthropology. |
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| ISSN: | 1179-7231 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Relegere
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.11157/rsrr7-1-2-733 |