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Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, Giovanni Paolo Panini

Nemesius of Emesa

Giovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, c. 1754 · Public domainGiovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, c. 1754

Church Fatherfl. c. 400

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Bishop of Emesa in Syria about the year 400, known only through his treatise On the Nature of Man, the first Christian anthropology, which draws on Galen, Aristotle and the Platonists to describe soul, body, the passions, providence and free will. It was long copied under the name of Gregory of Nyssa, and John Damascene and Aquinas took their account of the soul's powers from it.

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