Nemesius of Emesa on Human Nature
Title | Nemesius of Emesa on Human Nature PDF eBook |
Author | David Lloyd Dusenbury |
Publisher | |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780191890079 |
Nemesius of Emesa's 'On Human Nature' (De Natura Hominis) is a Christian anthropology. Written in Greek, circa 390 CE, it was read in half a dozen languages - from Baghdad to Oxford - well into the early modern period. Nemesius' text circulated in two Latin versions in the centuries that saw the rise of European universities, shaping scholastic theories of human nature. During the Renaissance there were numerous print editions helping to inspire a new discourse of human dignity. David Lloyd Dusenbury offers a monograph in English on Nemesius' treatise. In the interpretation offered here, the Syrian bishop seeks to define the human qua human. His early Christian anthropology is cosmopolitan.
Nemesius of Emesa on Human Nature
Title | Nemesius of Emesa on Human Nature PDF eBook |
Author | David Lloyd Dusenbury |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0198856962 |
Nemesius of Emesa's On Human Nature (De Natura Hominis) is the first Christian anthropology. Written in Greek, circa 390 CE, it was read in half a dozen languages--from Baghdad to Oxford--well into the early modern period. Nemesius' text circulated in two Latin versions in the centuries that saw the rise of European universities, shaping scholastic theories of human nature. During the Renaissance there were numerous print editions helping to inspire a new discourse of human dignity. David Lloyd Dusenbury offers the first monograph in English on Nemesius' treatise. In the interpretation offered here, the Syrian bishop seeks to define the human qua human. His early Christian anthropology is cosmopolitan. He writes, 'Things that are natural are the same for all.' In his pages, a host of texts and discourses--biblical and medical, legal and philosophical--are made to converge upon a decisive tenet of Christian late antiquity: humans' natural freedom. For Nemesius, reason and choice are a divine double-strand of powers. Since he believes that both are a natural human inheritance, he concludes that much is 'in our power'. Nemesius defines humans as the only living beings who are at once ruler (intellect) and ruled (body). Because of this, the human is a 'little world', binding the rationality of angels to the flux of elements, the tranquillity of plants, and the impulsiveness of animals. This compelling study traces Nemesius' reasoning through the whole of On Human Nature, as he seeks to give a long-influential image of humankind both philosophical and anatomical proof.
The Nature of Man
Title | The Nature of Man PDF eBook |
Author | Nemesius (Emesenus.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1636 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
On the Nature of Man
Title | On the Nature of Man PDF eBook |
Author | Nemesius (Bp. of Emesa.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
"Nemesius' treatise On the Nature of Man is an important text for historians of ancient thought, not only as a much-quarried source of evidence for earlier works now lost, but also as an indication of intellectual life in the late fourth century AD. The author was a Christian bishop; the subject is the nature of human beings and their place in the scheme of created things. The medical works of Galen and the philosophical writings of Plato, Aristotle and the Neoplatonist Porphyry are all major influences on Nemesius; so too the controversial Christian Origen. On the Nature of Man provides the first known compendium of theological anthropology with a Christian orientation and considerably influenced later Byzantine and medieval Latin philosophical theology."--BOOK JACKET.
Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus
Title | Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Hofer (O.P.) |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2013-08-29 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0199681945 |
This book examines how Gregory of Nazianzus, a fourth-century Greek writer famed as 'the Theologian' in the Christian tradition, expressed the mystery of Christ in terms of his own life. It studies Gregory's three genres of writing (orations, poems, and letters) and shows how Gregory developed an 'autobiographical Christology'.
The Greek Patristic View of Nature
Title | The Greek Patristic View of Nature PDF eBook |
Author | David Sutherland Wallace-Hadrill |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Christian literature, Early |
ISBN |
The Political Animal in Medieval Philosophy
Title | The Political Animal in Medieval Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Juhana Toivanen |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2020-10-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004438467 |
In The Political Animal in Medieval Philosophy Juhana Toivanen investigates the foundations of human social life through the Aristotelian notion of ‘political animal’, as it was used in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.