The Eastern Cross/Library/On the Making of Man
St. Gregory wrote this to finish his brother St. Basil's sermons on creation, which stopped before the creation of man. He asks what the image of God in us is, and what the body, the mind and the passions are for.
It is one of the first Christian books on human nature as a whole.
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About this edition
Translated by William Moore and Henry Austin Wilson, in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, second series, vol. 5 (1893), edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace.
This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.
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