CENTRE of THEOLOGY and PHILOSOPHY | Becoming Human: Meditations on Christian Anthropology in Word and Image, by John Behr

'Every doctrine which does not reach the one thing necessary, every separated philosophy, will remain deceived by false appearances. It will be a doctrine, it will not be Philosophy’ (Maurice Blondel, 1861-1949)

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Becoming Human: Meditations on Christian Anthropology in Word and Image, by John Behr

By Adam Morton ⋅ October 5, 2013 ⋅

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Becoming Human: Meditations on Christian Anthropology in Word and Image, by John Behr (St Vladimirs Seminary Press, September 23, 2013, 136 pages).

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Publication description:

This book reflects upon various dimensions and implications of the astounding fact that Christ shows us what it is to be God by the way he dies as a human being and, in so doing, simultaneously shows us what it is to be a human being. Connecting the end -“It is finished”- with the beginning – “Let us make a human being”-

Fr John Behr challenges us to think again about who we are, as male and female, what we are called to become, and the relation between life and death in this journey. Presented in a poetic and meditative manner, adorned by images and offset quotations, this book inclines the reader towards a meditative reading, weighing, rather than skimming, each word and image.

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An audio lecture given on ‘Becoming Human’ by Fr Behr can be listened to here (2013 Lenten Retreat, hosted by St. Justin Martyr Orthodox Church at Jacksonville, FL):