How Long to Read Embodiment and Virtue in Gregory of Nyssa

How Long Does it Take to Read Embodiment and Virtue in Gregory of Nyssa?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 8 minutes to read Embodiment and Virtue in Gregory of Nyssa by Hans Boersma

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Description

Embodiment in the theology of Gregory of Nyssa is a much-debated topic. Hans Boersma argues that this-worldly realities of time and space, which include embodiment, are not the focus of Gregory's theology. Instead, embodiment plays a distinctly subordinate role. The key to his theology, Boersma suggests, is anagogy, going upward in order to participate in the life of God. This book looks at a variety of topics connected to embodiment in Gregory's thought: time and space; allegory; gender, sexuality, and virginity; death and mourning; slavery, homelessness, and poverty; and the church as the body of Christ. In each instance, Boersma maintains, Gregory values embodiment only inasmuch as it enables us to go upward in the intellectual realm of the heavenly future. Boersma suggests that for Gregory embodiment and virtue serve the anagogical pursuit of otherworldly realities. Countering recent trends in scholarship that highlight Gregory's appreciation of the goodness of creation, this book argues that Gregory looks at embodiment as a means for human beings to grow in virtue and so to participate in the divine life. It is true that, as a Christian thinker, Gregory regards the creator-creature distinction as basic. But he also works with the distinction between spirit and matter. And Nyssen is convinced that in the hereafter the categories of time and space will disappear-while the human body will undergo an inconceivable transformation. This book, then, serves as a reminder of the profoundly otherworldly cast of Gregory's theology.

How long is Embodiment and Virtue in Gregory of Nyssa?

Embodiment and Virtue in Gregory of Nyssa by Hans Boersma is 304 pages long, and a total of 77,216 words.

This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Embodiment and Virtue in Gregory of Nyssa Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 1 minute to read Embodiment and Virtue in Gregory of Nyssa aloud.

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Embodiment and Virtue in Gregory of Nyssa is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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