Anthropology, from ἄνθρωπος (“human being”) and λόγος (“discourse, theory”), in its classical sense is a branch of philosophy and theology that studies the human being. Patristic anthropology is rich and rooted in Scripture – for example the doctrines of creation, the fall, and redemption – and in Greek philosophy (esp. Platonism, but with Stoic and Aristotelian elements), for example the tripartition of the human soul, the human as a microcosm, or the co…