Human Flourishing in Early Christian Theology: Creation and Transfiguration in Gregory of Nyssa and Augustine of Hippo

The study of human flourishing has grown dramatically in the past decades, emerging not only as a central topic in the social scientific fields of psychology and sociology but also as an interdisciplinary nexus. Human flourishing is now a topic for literary studies, for theology and religious studies, for history, and all of the humanities. This rapid growth expresses the availability of flourishing as a nearly universal object of interest, a basic and globally-shared human desire: Who does...