David Lloyd Dusenbury provides the first monograph in English on the first Christian anthropology--a text which influenced ideas about human nature in the Byzantine and Islamicate worlds, and in Europe, well into the early modern period.

David Lloyd Dusenbury is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

• Author's Note


• Note on Citations


• Prologue: Cosmopolitan Anthropology of Late Antiquity


• 1: Ideas for a Reconstruction


• 2: The World City: On Human Nature 1


• 3: The Union of Substances: On Human Nature 2-5


• 4: The Organization of Powers: On Human Nature 6-28


• 5: The Logic of Law: On Human Nature 29-43


• Epilogue: The Legacy of an Early Christian Anthropology


• Titles of Ancient Works


• Bibliography


• Index