The Wheel #31/32. Embodied. Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

Gregory of Nyssa and Human Diversity: Image and Likeness

One of the most curious things about Christianity is that, for a religion with a literal human body at its centre, it is perhaps the most bodyphobic of faiths, and the one in which an unreceptiveness to diversity of identity sits in the starkest contrast to core precepts of the theology.