{"id":28605,"date":"2013-10-01T15:57:52","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T19:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=28605"},"modified":"2013-10-01T14:35:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T18:35:07","slug":"becoming-human-meditations-on-christian-anthropology-in-word-and-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/10\/becoming-human-meditations-on-christian-anthropology-in-word-and-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Human: Meditations on Christian Anthropology in Word and Image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Becoming-Human-JBehr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28606 alignleft\" title=\"Becoming Human JBehr\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Becoming-Human-JBehr.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Orthodox theologian John Behr recently published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.svspress.com\/becoming-human-meditations-on-christian-anthropology-in-word-and-image\/\"><em><strong>Becoming Human: Meditations on Christian Anthropology in Word and Image<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (St Vladimir\u2019s Seminary Press, 2013).<\/p>\n<p>Being human is what we are created to be. Those of us with flesh and blood, body and soul, are not angels. Christians come at the question of anthropology differently. And it is a true statement that as many ecclesial communities in the world there a way of understanding the nature and beauty of what it means to be a human being.<\/p>\n<p>What this book provides is a good complement to a greater theological perspective of humanity. You can read Behr together with Benedict XVI and John Paul II. Behr helps to identify a path and not a destination; the author\u2019s method is one which looks at our ecclesial experience. We are always in process, never a finished project. Hence, <i>Becoming Human <\/i>is a healthy theological meditation, that is, he\u2019s not giving a stale presentation of human nature is dynamic, we are in the process of becoming, and not finished when at a given point in our personal history. That is, until we die. <i>Becoming Human<\/i> is accessible and is graced by 41 color plates.<\/p>\n<p>Father John Behr, a priest of the Orthodox Church in America, a patristics scholar and dean of St Vladimir\u2019s Seminary (Yonkers, NY). Behr authored <a href=\"http:\/\/www.svspress.com\/way-to-nicaea-the-softcover\/\">The Way to Nicaea<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.svspress.com\/nicene-faith-the-softcover\/\">The Nicene Faith<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.svspress.com\/mystery-of-christ-life-in-death-the\/\">The Mystery of Christ: Life in Death<\/a>, all available from SVS Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orthodox theologian John Behr recently published Becoming Human: Meditations on Christian Anthropology in Word and Image (St Vladimir\u2019s Seminary Press, 2013). Being human is what we are created to be. Those of us with flesh and blood, body and soul, are not angels. Christians come at the question of anthropology differently. And it is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/10\/becoming-human-meditations-on-christian-anthropology-in-word-and-image\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Becoming Human: Meditations on Christian Anthropology in Word and Image<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[3103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28607,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28605\/revisions\/28607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}