Opera exegetica In Genesim, Volume 2 De Hominis Opificio

The edition of De opificio hominis completes the Gregorii Nysseni Opera. This series of critical editions was initiated in 1908 by the classical philologist Ulrich von Wilamowitz—Moellendorff and realized by Werner Jaeger and his disciples. Gregory of Nyssa (335—395 AD) is the true founder of a Christian philosophical anthropology. He discusses philosophical and medical concepts about the human constitution and relates them to the biblical verse Genesis 1,26—27 on the creation of the human ...