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 problematized 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, Bar Daisan, and Gregory of Nyssa.
Author(s): Anna Usacheva (ed.); Jörg Ulrich (ed.); Siam Bhayro (ed.)
Series: Contexts of Ancient and Medieval Anthropology (1)
Publisher: Brill Schoningh
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 292
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
