The Unity of Body and Soul in Patristic and Byzantine Thought

2021
ISBN: 978-3-506-70339-2
Verlag: Brill I Schoeningh

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 659 g

Reihe: Contexts of ancient and medieval anthropology

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Usacheva, Anna

Ulrich, Jörg

Bhayro, Siam

Weitere Mitwirkende

Usacheva, Anna

Ulrich, Jörg

Bhayro, Siam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Christliche Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie

Über Autor(innen)

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.