On The Making Of Man by Gregory of Nyssa
A theological and philosophical meditation on human nature that reads Genesis to explain how humanity was formed in the divine image: a rational, immortal soul joined to a bodily organism and endowed with free will and the capacity to grow toward God. The work examines the relationship between body and soul, the meaning of likeness to God as potential rather than static perfection, and how moral choice, knowledge, and repentance shape human destiny. Drawing on biblical exegesis and Platonic ideas, it argues that creation aims at the restoration and maturation of the person in communion with the Creator, with suffering and mortality serving as corrective means in the soul’s pilgrimage toward likeness to God.
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- De hominis opificio
- De opificio hominis
- On the Creation of Man
- Peri tes ktiseos tou anthropou
- Περὶ τῆς κτίσεως τοῦ ἀνθρώπου
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