Passion and Paradise: A Study of Theological Anthropology in Gregory of Nyssa by J. Warren Smith

Passion and Paradise: A Study of Theological Anthropology in Gregory of Nyssa

J. Warren Smith

296 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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"In neoplatonist Christian thought in the early church, theologians tend to describe God as apathetic, not subject to the passions and emotions that beset humans. In a theological system where salvation involves becoming "like" God in some way, wh...

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