A Phenomenology of the Divine Image
Gregory of Nyssa and the Veil of Flesh
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 16 April 2026
- ISBN 9781350569423
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
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Short description:
Bringing Gregory of Nyssa into dialogue with the phenomenologies of Michel Henry, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Jean-Louis Chretien, Thomas Breedlove explores the importance of embodiment to the doctrine of imago Dei.
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What does it mean to speak of humans as the image of God when apophatic theology speaks of an infinite God who transcends naming, comprehension, and worldly appearance? Bringing Church Father, Gregory of Nyssa into dialogue with the phenomenologies of Michel Henry, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Jean-Louis Chretien, Thomas Breedlove answers this question and explores the importance of embodiment to the doctrine of imago Dei.
Divided into three parts, this book investigates humans' relation to the divine through three successive approaches. The first, in conversation with Merleau-Ponty, analyses the existential and phenomenological aspects of fleshly finitude as the paradigmatic site of the creature's difference from God. The second takes up Henry's philosophy of life alongside Gregory's metaphysics of participation to offer an account of creaturely life in its likeness or identity to divine life. The third, though conversation with Chrï¿1⁄2tien, examines the christological aspects of Gregory's anthropology in order to find the dynamic synthesis of likeness and difference that determines the nature of human beings as, in some way, reflecting God.
In blending 4th century theology with 20th century phenomenology, Breedlove not only showcases the alternative perspectives they can offer each other, but further presents a novel theological anthropology. He argues that imago Dei is not merely one aspect of human identity, but rather precisely what constitutes 'human creatureliness', as is revealed in the dynamism and groundlessness of the flesh.
Table of Contents:
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Introduction
1. Composing the Body
2. The Argument of this Book
3. Soma, Pneuma, and Phainï¿1⁄2menon
4. Structure
Part I: The Givenness of Death: Gregory and Maurice Merleau-Ponty
5. Challenges
6. Purity and Permanence
7. Finitude
8.The Flesh of the World
9. The Witness of the Body
10. The Pedagogue of Finitude
Parenthesis 1
11. Methorios
12. Life in Absurdities
Part II: The Givenness of Life: Gregory and Michel Henry
13. ""In short, he becomes God""
14. Participation in Life Itself
15. ""The Essence of man""
16. The Duplicity of the World
17. Truth and Lies
18. ""I no longer live, but Christ lives in me""
19. The Question of Creation
Parenthesis 2
20. The One from Heaven
Part III: The Veil of the Flesh: Gregory and Jean-Louis Chrï¿1⁄2tien
21. No longer, not yet
22. The Possibility of Revelation
23. Wounded Being
24. The Wound of Desire
25. The Call that Wounds
26. The Wound of the Flesh
Conclusion
27. ""When was it""
