tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post3553997570298118452..comments2023-07-03T11:49:37.837+01:00Comments on Theologies: Nemesius of Emesa on human natureMarikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02613745498284783614noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-33508960206593168622010-08-07T18:59:25.804+01:002010-08-07T18:59:25.804+01:00Dear Marika,
Thank you for your answer. At the t...Dear Marika, <br /><br />Thank you for your answer. At the time of writting I had the mind occupied by the Syriac school of Edessa. (And I'm not a specialist in patristic!). I know the translation that you recommend to me, I think the only solution is to buy it.<br /><br />Because you are also interested in apophatism, I allow me to ask you if "being intelligent" or even "brilliant" and, on the other hand, "being beautiful" could be defined cataphatical?Valentinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-31311098739105621592010-08-04T10:59:31.750+01:002010-08-04T10:59:31.750+01:00If you really mean Nemesius of Edessa, I'm afr...If you really mean Nemesius of Edessa, I'm afraid I can't help you; but if you're interested in Nemesius of Emesa, there's an excellent new full translation available by Philip Van Der Eijk and R W Sharples, though I don't know where you'd get hold of the untranslated version. Sorry!Marikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02613745498284783614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-490406530834618322010-08-03T17:45:28.893+01:002010-08-03T17:45:28.893+01:00Dear Marika,
Do you happen to have the electronic...Dear Marika,<br /><br />Do you happen to have the electronic form of the text of Nemesius of Edessa?Valentinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-83674473812537452772009-02-27T15:15:00.001+00:002009-02-27T15:15:00.001+00:00PS Obviously Origen is wrong on his theory about t...PS Obviously Origen is wrong on his theory about the angels etc. That's partly why he's generally a bit dodgy. I do think it's quite sweet, though, somehow.Marikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02613745498284783614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-71296087516021672982009-02-27T15:15:00.000+00:002009-02-27T15:15:00.000+00:00Well, pretty much everyone I've come across has so...Well, pretty much everyone I've come across has some sort of body/soul dualism, most, I think because the body continues to exist even after death, attesting to its relative independence from the soul, and because angels (and God) don't have bodies, attesting to the possibility of the existence of bodiless souls. The dualism only really gets Cartesian though when you start to see them as basically independent of one another - Aquinas criticises Plato for thinking that the soul simply wore the body like a coat. <BR/><BR/>There are lots of different ways of articulating the relationship between body and soul within Christian theology, and I think they're variously successful in avoiding Cartesian-style dualisms. I'm not quite sure how persuaded I am by Nemesius, but I'm planning on writing an essay about something very close to this issue, so maybe in a few months I'll have more to say about it...Marikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02613745498284783614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824261000607570706.post-60269456722919194712009-02-23T23:07:00.000+00:002009-02-23T23:07:00.000+00:00Of course, this suggests that there is a distincti...Of course, this suggests that there is a distinction to be drawn between the body and the soul: isn't that rather a gnostic point of view? Or, worse, Cartesian? As I understand it, the 1st century Jewish way of understanding resurrection revolved around the body.<BR/><BR/>Don't forget that bioenergetics doesn't like the mind-body split all that much...<BR/><BR/>So where does that leave Origen et al?Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02719691985950547486noreply@blogger.com