John Behr is the Regius Professor of Humanity at the University of Aberdeen, having previously taught at St Vladimir's Seminary, where he served as Dean for a decade. He is also a part-time Professor at Radboud University, the Netherlands. He has published numerous monographs with OUP, most recently an edition and translation of Origen's On First Principles, together with an extensive introduction (2017), and a study of the Gospel of John, John the Theologian and his Paschal Gospel, (2019); he has also published various works aimed for a more general audience, such as his more poetic and meditative work entitled Becoming Human: Theological Anthropology in Word and Image (SVS Press).
The volume will be useful to the patristic scholar,...Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * Choice * The treatise is offered to an interlocutor, Peter, as a gift. In conveying so vividly Gregory's wonder, illuminating groundbreaking textual parallels and relating this difficult treatise in accessible terms, Behr offers readers another. * Times Literary Supplement * Bringing into attention both an author and a work that are relevant for the contemporary theological space: Gregory of Nyssa, On the Human Image of God, Oxford edition from 2023 realized by John Behr is not only an interesting and necessary book for the Christian space, but also for the contemporary universal culture. * Iuliu-Marius Morariu, Anuario de Historia de la Iglesia *