Abstract In this response essay to John Behr’s Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God , Rowan Williams highlights Gregory’s exposition of the complex account of nous and its meaning in relation to sensory embodiment. Nous , in Gregory’s treatise, is the presence of unified divine activity in the diversity of creation. Created nous , in turn, refers to how the creature harmonizes a...
The beginnings of a distinctive Christian theology lie in the conviction that human beings had been granted a new level of access to or presence to the God of Israel through the death and rising of Jesus: they were introduced into the heavenly sanctuary and accorded the dignity of priests and the intimacy of access to God as sons and daughters of the Father of Jesus. This prompts both doctrinal...