Introduction
1: Measured Body
2: Textual Body
3: Gendered Body
4: Dead Body
5: Oppressed Body
6: Ecclesial Body
7: Virtuous Body
Epilogue
Hans Boersma holds the J.I. Packer Chair of Theology at Regent
College in Vancouver, Canada. Before coming to Regent in 2005, he
taught for six years at Trinity Western University in nearby
Langley. Boersma holds a doctorate from the University of Utrecht.
His articles have appeared in numerous journals. His publications
include Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross: Reappropriating the
Atonement Tradition (Baker Academic), which won the 2005
Christianity Today best
theological book of the year award; Nouvelle Théologie and
Sacramental Ontology: A Return to Mystery (OUP, 2009); and Heavenly
Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry (Eerdmans,
2011).
`Boersma's characteristic clarity of style, breadth of scholarship,
and critical charity are on full display throughout the book, which
has much to offer the specialist and general reader alike.'
William Junker, Los Angeles Review of Books
`Hans Boersma's Embodiment and Virtue in Gregory of Nyssa: An
Anagogical Approach is a compelling and erudite analysis of the
significance of bodiliness in one of the most popular Church
Fathers to have emerged from the ressourcement movement of the 20th
century. . . . [T]his study is rich in its exegetical offerings and
shows why so much prior scholarship has gone awry by projecting its
often unexamined theoretical commitments onto a pre-modern
discourse.
As a corrective to that body of research, Boersma's offering is
deeply persuasive - a must-read for those researching Gregory of
Nyssa.'
Raphael Cadenhead, Reviews in Religion and Theology
`[Boersma] has produced a cogent-occasionally
exhilarating-monograph.'
Thomas E. Hunt, Journal of Theological Studies
`Although the book is aimed at the patristic scholar, fortunately
its lucid prose and well structured chapters make it accessible to
the non-specialist. Gregory's anagogical and otherworldly emphasis
offers a refreshing challenge to our modern sensibilities, and
certainly must be wrestled with by anyone who is interested in
embodiment and broad sacramentality. Like everything else that
Boersma writes, Embodiment and Virtue in Gregory of Nyssa is worth
the
read.'
Andrew T. J. Kaethler, Transpositions
`Boersma offers many interesting insights, based on an intimate
acquaintance with Gregory's works. ... [I]n doing so he gives us a
salutary reminder of the distance between a fourth-century
ontological framework and our own.'
Ann Conway-Jones, Journal of Ecclesiastical History
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