Gregory of Nyssa and Human Diversity: Image and Likeness

by Jarel Robinson-Brown

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.

Jarel Robinson-Brown

The Rev. Jarel Robinson-Brown is an Anglican priest in the Diocese of London and a visiting scholar at Sarum College, Salisbury. His research interests are in patristics and particularly concern the body, desire, ethnicity, and gender in late antiquity.

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