God's Many-Splendored Image

What does it mean to be a human being made in the image of God? This book makes the case that the divine image can be seen in not just one or two aspects of human identity but in all of them. The author, a specialist in early Christianity, reveals the light that leading theologians of the early church shed on contemporary discussions of what it means to be human. Each chapter explores a different facet of the divine image and likeness and maps out a path that can lead toward wholeness and holiness. This fresh approach to theological anthropology brings Greek patristic theology to students in a readable fashion.

Nonna Verna Harrison (PhD, Graduate Theological Union), an experienced patristics scholar, is assistant professor of church history at Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Missouri, and the author of Grace and Human Freedom according to St. Gregory of Nyssa.