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Hello, friends. Welcome to OnScript. This is Amy Brown Hughes, a co-host for the podcast with Matt Lynch,

Matt Bates, Aaronheim, Drew Johnson, Chris Tilling, and Jules Martinez-Ollieri. Today I have the pleasure

of speaking with Father John Bear, Regis Professor of Humanity at the University of Aberdeen

since the summer of 2020, and before that, faculty and dean at St. Vladimir's Seminary.

He is also a part-time professor at Radbood University in Naimahan, Holland. Father John has published numerous monographs with Oxford University Press and St. Vladimir's Seminary's Press, including a new critical edition and translation of origins on first principles, together with an extensive introduction for Oxford University Press,

and a study of the Gospel of John, also with Oxford University Press.

He has also published various works aimed for a more general audience,

such as his more poetic and meditative work entitled Becoming Human, Theological Anthropology in Word and Image.

Father John is an on-script alum.

One of our most popular episodes of all time is the two-part live episode we did at Neshota House in Wisconsin a few years ago.

I know a lot of listeners will be delighted to see that he's joined us again.

Last time we talked about the translation of origins on first principles, which was an absolute delight. And today we're going to be talking with Father John about his new edition and translation of On the Human Image of God, also known as On the Making of Man by Gregory of Nissa, published by Oxford University Press last year. As some of you might know, if you've been a long-time listener of OnScript,

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