The Unity of Body and Soul in Patristic and Byzantine Thought.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (292 pages)
- Contexts of Ancient and Medieval Anthropology Series ; v.1 .
- Contexts of Ancient and Medieval Anthropology Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Peculiar Merit of the Human Body: Combined Exegesis of Gen 1:26f. and Gen 2:7 in Second Century Christianity -- Chapter 2 Rational Creatures and Matter in Eschatology According to Origen's On First Principles -- Chapter 3 Origen on the Unity of Soul and Body in the Earthly Life and Afterwards and His Impact on Gregory of Nyssa -- Chapter 4 Gregory of Nyssa's Trinitarian Anthropology: A Narrative -- Chapter 5 The Body in the Ascetic Thought of Evagrius Ponticus -- Chapter 6 Resurrection, Emotion, and Embodiment in Egyptian Monastic Literature -- Chapter 7 Christian Ensoulment Theories within Dualist Psychological Discourse -- Chapter 8 From Garments of Flesh to Garments of Light: Hardness, Subtleness and the Soul-Body Relation in Macarius-Symeon -- Chapter 9 Patristic Views on Why There Is No Repentance after Death -- Chapter 10 Treating the Body and the Soul in Late-Antique and Early-Medieval Syriac Sources: The Syro-Mesopotamian Context of Bardaiṣan and Sergius -- Chapter 11 Christ the Healer of Human Passibility: The Passions, Apatheia, and Christology in Maximus the Confessor's Quaestiones ad Thalassium -- Chapter 12 Maximus the Confessor's View on Soul and Body in the Context of Five Divisions -- Contributors.