Human Flourishing in Early Christian Theology: Creation and Transfiguration in Gregory of Nyssa and Augustine of Hippo (Studies in Patristic Theology and Spirituality)

The study of human flourishing has grown dramatically in the past decades, emerging not only as a central topic in the social scientific fields of psychology and sociology but also as an interdisciplinary nexus.Human flourishing is now a topic for literary studies, for theology and religious studies, for history, and all of the humanities.This rapid growth expresses the availability of flourishing as a nearly universal object of interest, a basic and globally-shared human desire: Who does not want to flourish?This advent of attention and scholarship has brought with it attention not only to what might be common in human flourishing but also what is regionally, culturally, and socially distinct.Human Flourishing in Early Christian Theology: Creation and Transfiguration in Gregory of Nyssa and Augustine of Hippo contributes to this broadening of perspective diachronically, bringing central constructs in the contemporary social scientific study of human flourishing into conversation with