Gregory Of Nyssa Contra Eunomium Iii An English Translation With Commentary And Supporting Studies
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Gregory of Nyssa: Contra Eunomium III. An English Translation with Commentary and Supporting Studies
Gregory of Nyssa's Contra Eunomium, one of the major books on trinitarian theology of the 4th century, documents the exchange between Eunomius and the Cappadocian Father in the last episode of the so-called "Arian Crisis". The present volume is devoted to the third and last book of Contra Eunomium. It offers a fresh English translation with a running commentary in the form of ten studies by first-rank specialists. Seventeen shorter papers enlighten various aspects of Contra Eunomium and other writings of the same author. The contributions will be of interest for scholars of historical and systematical theology, philosophy, spirituality, rhetoric and the history of the Early Church.
Gregory of Nyssa's Doctrinal Works
Author: Andrew Radde-Gallwitz
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 2018-05-23
Gregory of Nyssa is firmly established in today's theological curriculum and is a major figure in the study of late antiquity. Students encounter him in anthologies of primary sources, in surveys of Christian history and perhaps in specialized courses on the doctrine of the Trinity, eschatology, asceticism, or the like. Gregory of Nyssa's Doctrinal Works presents a reading of the works in Gregory's corpus devoted to the dogmatic controversies of his day. Andrew Radde-Gallwitz focuses as much on Gregory the writer as on Gregory the dogmatic theologian. He sets both elements not only within the context of imperial legislation and church councils of Gregory's day, but also within their proper religious context-that is, within the temporal rhythms of ritual and sacramental practice. Gregory himself roots what we call Trinitarian theology within the church's practice of baptism. In his dogmatic treatises, where textbook accounts might lead one to expect much more on the metaphysics of substance or relation, one finds a great deal on baptismal grace; in his sermons, reflecting on the occasion of baptism tends to prompt Trinitarian questions.
Christ, the Spirit, and Human Transformation in Gregory of Nyssa's in Canticum Canticorum
Author: Alexander L. Abecina
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 2023-09-15
"It is generally agreed that virg. is Gregory of Nyssa's first written work, composed sometime in the early 370s. Recent scholarly interest in the text has tended to focus upon Gregory's alleged "ranking" of different forms of married and celibate life in relation to fourth century Christian asceticism. Rarely, however, has the overtly ascetical subject matter of the work been studied with regard to one of the most pressing doctrinal debates of the 370s and 380s, namely the dispute over the status of the Holy Spirit; a matter which the Cappadocian Fathers took up with great force against the Macedonians who denied the Spirit's essential unity with the Father and the Son. This chapter therefore investigates the role Gregory assigns to the Holy Spirit in the virgin's 'spiritual marriage' or union with Christ. I will show that Gregory stresses throughout the work that such union with Christ is in fact impossible for the naturally weak and fallen virgin unless it is actualised by the life-giving power of the Holy Spirit who shares in the very attributes of 'purity', 'incorruptibility' and 'virginity' that are proper to the Father and the Son. This he expounds with direct reference to baptismal theology. Thus, read in light of the debates with the Macedonians in the 370s and 380s, virg. can be understood to prescribe a form of ascetical life which rests upon the characteristically anti-Macedonian conviction that the Spirit, who is received at baptism, unites humanity to the Son and the Father because the Spirit is himself essentially united to the Son and the Father. This analysis of pneumatology in virg. is of central importance to my study of hom. in Cant: both works portray humanity's union with Christ under the metaphor of marriage. That Gregory construes this nuptial union in thoroughly pneumatological and hence baptismal terms in his earliest work serves to attune my focus upon resonant pneumatological and baptismal themes that shed light on his exegesis of the Song of Songs in his final written work"--