Fire and Spirit or the life of Olivier Clément through an anthropological reading of Bodies of Death and Glory

This article offers an anthropological reading of Corps de mort et de gloire by Olivier Clément, a French Orthodox theologian of the twentieth century. The theologian Michelina Tenace adopts an analytical and interpretive approach, bringing Clément's thought into dialogue with the categories of theological anthropology. The central idea concerns the paradoxical condition of the human body: subject to corruption and death, it nonetheless remains the privileged locus of sanctification and resurrection, particularly through the path of repentance. The article thus highlights the internal coherence of Clément's anthropological vision, which articulates the reality of the fall and the hope of transfiguration. On the theological level, this study contributes to clarifying the place of the body in Orthodox soteriology and pneumatology, by showing how flesh and Spirit are inscribed within a dynamic of death and glory.