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On the Making of Man

Explores humanity as image-bearing creature, integrating theological anthropology with moral vocation.

Gregory of Nyssac. AD 3794th century

Overview

Category
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers
Genre
Treatise
Tradition
Eastern
Region
Eastern Mediterranean
Original language
Greek
Date certainty
Approximate

Historical context

Manuscript context

On the Making of Man circulated in Eastern Mediterranean and is received through Greek manuscript and translation traditions associated with Gregory of Nyssa.

Themes

Trinitarian TheologyChristologySpiritual Formation

Controversies

  • Christological debates

Source links

  • English translation

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  • Archive mirror

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On the Making of Man

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