Translation of the article: “Theological anthropology and the eastern orthodox canonical tradition” by David Heith-Stade

David Heith-Stade’s article is an application perspectives from theological anthropology on the Byzantine canonical tradition. The classical Byzantine canonists presume that mortality, passions and desire are results of original sin that defines postlapsarian human nature. In the prelapsarian state, human nature was potentially immortal and free to choose between virtue and vice, but with the help of grace of God the human person can cultivate virtue in the postlapsarian state.