<i>Ecce Homo</i> : A Response to John Behr’s New Edition of Gregory of Nyssa’s <i>On the Human Image of God</i>

Abstract One of the unique contributions that John Behr makes in his volume on Gregory of Nyssa’s On the Human Image is how he locates Gregory within the larger theological‐philosophical context of writing about creation, situating Gregory in a long strand of writing from Anaxagoras to Maximus the Confessor. In his response essay, Paul Blowers further investigates Gregory’s alignment with earlier (and later writers) and explores the question of Gregory’s potential idiosyncracies. Blowers weaves this discussion of Gregory into conversation with Behr’s other writings about anthropology and with the interrelated concerns of Christology, cosmology and eschatology. Through this, Blowers comes to highlight the central inseparability of protology and eschatology in Behr’s approach to Gregory’s thought: we only come to a true contemplation of human nature ‘from the end’, as an only‐then realizable eschatological and christological reality.