The Unity of Body and Soul
in Patristic and Byzantine Thought
Anna Usacheva, Jörg Ulrich & Siam Bhayro, Leiden: Brill, 2020
Description
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, Bardaisan, and Gregory of Nyssa.
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Table of contents
Chapter 1 The Peculiar Merit of the Human Body: Combined Exegesis of Gen 1:26f. and Gen 2:7 in Second Century Christianity p. 1–19
Author: Jörg Ulrich
Chapter 2 Rational Creatures and Matter in Eschatology According to Origen’s On First Principles p. 20–37
Author: Samuel Fernández
Chapter 3 Origen on the Unity of Soul and Body in the Earthly Life and Afterwards and His Impact on Gregory of Nyssa p. 38–77
Author: Ilaria L.E. Ramelli
Chapter 4 Gregory of Nyssa’s Trinitarian Anthropology: A Narrative p. 78–108
Author: Ilaria Vigorelli
Chapter 5 The Body in the Ascetic Thought of Evagrius Ponticus p. 109–121
Author: Kuo-Yu Tsui
Chapter 6 Resurrection, Emotion, and Embodiment in Egyptian Monastic Literature
Author: Andrew Crislip p. 122–143
Chapter 7 Christian Ensoulment Theories within Dualist Psychological Discourse p. 144–169
Author: Anna Usacheva
Chapter 8 From Garments of Flesh to Garments of Light: Hardness, Subtleness and the Soul-Body Relation in Macarius-Symeon p. 170–191
Author: Samuel Kaldas
Chapter 9 Patristic Views on Why There Is No Repentance after Death p. 192–212
Author: David Bradshaw
Chapter 10 Treating the Body and the Soul in Late-Antique and Early-Medieval Syriac Sources: The Syro-Mesopotamian Context of Bardaiṣan and Sergius p. 213–228
Author: Siam Bhayro
Chapter 11 Christ the Healer of Human Passibility: The Passions, Apatheia, and Christology in Maximus the Confessor’s Quaestiones ad Thalassium p. 229–244
Author: Andrew J. Summerson
Chapter 12 Maximus the Confessor’s View on Soul and Body in the Context of Five Divisions p. 245–276
Author: Vladimir Cvetković
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