Gregory of Nyssa, Ancient and (Post)modern
Title | Gregory of Nyssa, Ancient and (Post)modern PDF eBook |
Author | Morwenna Ludlow |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2007-09-20 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0199280762 |
The fourth-century Christian thinker, Gregory of Nyssa, has been the subject of a huge variety of interpretations over the past fifty years. Morwenna Ludlow analyses these recent readings, and asks: What do they reveal about modern and postmodern interpretations of the Christian past? What do they say about the nature of Gregory's writing?
Exploring Gregory of Nyssa
Title | Exploring Gregory of Nyssa PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Marmodoro |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 377 |
Release | 2018-10-18 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0192568833 |
Exploring Gregory of Nyssa: Philosophical, Theological, and Historical Studies brings together an interdisciplinary team of historians, classicists, philosophers, and theologians to offer a holistic exploration of the thought of Gregory of Nyssa. The volume considers Gregory's role in the main philosophical and religious controversies of his era, such as his ecclesiastical involvement in the Neo-Nicene apologetical movement. It looks at his complex relationships-for example with his brother Basil of Caesarea and with Gregory of Nazianzus. Contributors highlight Gregory's debt to Origen, but also the divergence between the two thinkers, and their relationships to Platonism. They also examine Gregory of Nyssa's wider philosophy and metaphysics; deep questions in philosophy of language such as the nature of predication and singular terms that inform our understanding of Gregory's thought; and the role of metaphysical concepts such as the nature of powers and identity. The study paints a picture of Gregory as a ground-breaking philosopher-theologian. It analyses the nature of the soul, and connection to theological issues such as resurrection; questions that are still of interest in the philosophy of religion today, such as divine impassibility and the nature of the Trinity; and returning to more immediately humane concerns, Gregory also has profound thoughts on topics such as vulnerability and self-direction. The volume will be of primary interest to researchers, lecturers, and postgraduate students in philosophy, classics, history, and theology, and can be recommended as secondary reading for undergraduates, especially those studying classics and theology.
Gregory of Nyssa
Title | Gregory of Nyssa PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Meredith |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2012-10-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134815115 |
Gregory of Nyssa provides a concise and accessible introduction to the thought of this early church father with new translations of key selections of his writings. Anthony Meredith presents a diverse range of Gregory's writings: his contribution to the debates of the period about the nature of God in argument with a form of extreme Arianism his discussion of the nature and work of the Holy Ghost, against the so-called 'Spirit fighters' his defence of the humanity of Christ against those who denied it (notably Apollinarius) the nature of fate and other philosophical issues.
Two rediscovered works of ancient Christian literature: Gregory of Nyssa and Macarius
Title | Two rediscovered works of ancient Christian literature: Gregory of Nyssa and Macarius PDF eBook |
Author | Werner Jaeger |
Publisher | Brill Archive |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 1965 |
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Gregory of Nyssa's Tabernacle Imagery in Its Jewish and Christian Contexts
Title | Gregory of Nyssa's Tabernacle Imagery in Its Jewish and Christian Contexts PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Conway-Jones |
Publisher | Oxford Early Christian Studies |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0198715390 |
Intergrating patristics and early Jewish mysticism, this book examines Greogry of Nyssa's tabernacle imagery, as found in Life of Moses 2. 170-201. Previous scholarship has often focused on Gregory's interpretation of the darkness on Mount Sinai as divine incomprehensibility. However, true to Exodus, Gregory continues with Moses's vision of the tabernacle "not made with hands" received within that darkness. This innovative methodology of heuristic comparison doesn't strive to prove influence, but to use heavenly ascent textsas a foil, in order to shed new light on Gregory's imagery. Ann Conway-Jones presents a well-rounded, nuanced understanding of Gregory's exegesis, in which mysticism, theology, and politics are intertwined. Heavenly ascent texts use descriptions of religious experience to claim authoritative knowledge. For Gregory, the high point of Moses's ascent into the darkness of Mount Sinai is the mystery of Christian doctrine. The heavenly tabernacle is a type of the heavenly Christ. This mystery is beyond intellectual comprehension, it can only be grasped by faith; and only the select few, destined for positions of responsibility, should even attempt to do so.
Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God
Title | Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God PDF eBook |
Author | John Behr |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 2023-03-09 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0192873342 |
This book presents the first modern critical edition of the work of Gregory of Nyssa, On the Human Image of God (formerly known as On the Making of Man, De hominis opificio) and the first English translation since the nineteenth century. This treatise is one of the most important of Gregory's texts. Paralleling the structure of Plato's Timaeus, Gregory's work begins by offering two analyses of the human being. The first presents the human being as the culmination of the ascent made by nature through the various levels of life, and as made, body and soul, in the image of God. The second considers why this is not immediately apparent, the need for time to be able to grow, individually and collectively, to this status, as the body of Christ, the image of God, and the role of sexuality within this growth. The third part of the work brings both analyses together, to see the same movement in the life-span of each person. The extensive introduction provided in this volume examines the philosophical and theological background of Gregory's text, beginning with Anaxagoras, Plato (the Timaeus), Philo, and Origen, and also compares aspects of Gregory's work with that of Irenaeus of Lyons and Maximos the Confessor.
Ancient & Postmodern Christianity
Title | Ancient & Postmodern Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Tanner |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2002-05-22 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0830826548 |
Built on the writings of the early church fathers, these essays--created in honor of Thomas C. Oden--span theological perspectives that emphasize what various Christian traditions hold in common. Edited by Kenneth Tanner and Christopher A. Hall.