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This informative and enjoyable volume serves as a valuable introduction to major themes in Greek Patristic anthropology—the image of God in the human form, the Fall of humanity, and the cause of evil—and brings together the main writings of St Basil the Great, fourth-century archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, on these subjects. St. Basil deftly addresses the questions posed by the human...

that if we are mindful of both contrasting aspects of our human creation, our sense of who we are is firmly grounded and we can guard against the temptations of arrogance and discouragement, both of which arise from a feeling that our underlying identity is unstable. Second, he explicitly locates the divine image, and with it the core of human identity, in the rational aspect of the soul, not in the body. He says that the soul is what each of us is as a human being, our body properly belongs to each
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