Fr John Behris the Fr George's Florovsky Distinguished Professor of Patristics at St Vladimir's Seminary, where he served as Dean from 2007-17, and the Metropolitan Kallistos Chair of Orthodox Theology at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. He has published numerous monographs with Oxford University Press and SVS Press, most recently an edition and translation of the fragments of Diodore of Tarsus and Theodore of Mopuestia (OUP 2011), a monograph on Irenaeus (OUP 2013), and a more poetic and meditative work entitled Becoming Human: Theological Anthropology in Word and Image (SVS Press, 2013). He has completed a new critical edition and translation of Origen's On First Principles , together with an extensive introduction, for OUP (2017), and a study of the Gospel of John (forthcoming OUP 2019), and is now working on a new edition and translation of the works of Irenaeus of Lyons.
What is life?
Speaker(s): John Behr
Date: Summer 2021
Length: 1h 24m
Product ID: RGDL5102G
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In one of his most beautiful lines, Irenaeus of Lyons (a second century theologian) said that ’the glory of God is the living human being’, but then adds, ‘and the life of the human being is to see God’. But, as no one can see God and live, the living human being that is the glory of God is the martyr, the one who takes up the cross to follow Christ. How might the witness of the martyrs challenge our own presuppositions about life, and especially the relationship between life and death, and, indeed, what it is to be human? By reflecting on these questions, John Behr will explore what it is that Christ offers when he says ‘I have come that you might have life and have it abundantly’ and what it is that he ‘finishes’, or brings to perfection, upon the Cross.
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