RT Article
T1 'He Loves Not the Person but the Nature': God's Love for Human Nature in Isaac of Nineveh
JF The journal of Eastern Christian studies
VO 71
IS 3/4
SP 269
OP 282
A1 Bumažnov, Dmitrij 1967-
LA English
PB Peeters
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1687211604
AB The article explores the anthropology of the Syriac church father Isaac of Niniveh, also known as Isaac the Syrian. Perhaps a distant echo of the debates around Augustine's concept of original sin, Isaac starts with an idea of God as immutable and unchangeable, whose love for the human race as his creation is equally universal and unconditional, and does not make differences on grounds of individual deeds. One consequence in inter-human relations is also unconditional love for one another, reflecting the dignity God has bestowed on humanity at large.
DO 10.2143/JECS.71.3.3286901