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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Gregory of Nyssa"”.
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The veil of the flesh : a phenomenological reading of Gregory of Nyssa.
The aim of this project is to articulate the significance of embodiment in the theological doctrine of the imago Dei. Reading Gregory of Nyssa's theological anthropology in conversation with three French phenomenologists—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Henry, and Jean-Louis Chrétien—I explore divine …
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The Third Letter of Saint Gregory of Nyssa: A Commentary with an Introduction and Translation
<p>The first English translation of any of the Letters of St. Gregory of Nyssa appeared in 1893 in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Nyssa. Gregory’s third letter is here included, presumably because of its interesting doctrinal content. Since the date of this …
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The Fourth and Sixth Letters of Saint Gregory of Nyssa: A Commentary with an Introduction and Translation
<p>The Letters of Gt. Gregory of Nyssa first appeared in on English transition of 1893 in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers under the editorship of Philip Schaff and Barry Race. Doth the fourth and sixth Jotters are included in the collection, the former presumably because of its metaphorical …
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A theological exploration of the shape of life and death in dialogue with the biographical works of Gregory of Nyssa
In this thesis I investigate Gregory of Nyssa’s doctrine of the spiritual ascent of epektasis in order to uncover a theological vision of progress through the passage of a human life. I argue that how such progress is construed yields vivid ethical implications for how ageing and dying at the end …
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Is Everybody Doing It? Marital Celibacy in the Cappadocians and Augustine
… scholarship on marital celibacy has all too often read later practices of marital celibacy into earlier texts, due to scholars' tendency to universalize ascetic practice. This study endeavors to dismantle such universalizing by demonstrating the differences among four church fathers' …
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Divine simplicity and the triune identity: a critical dialogue with the theological metaphysics of Robert W. Jenson
There has been a recent revival of interest in the doctrine of divine simplicity in systematic and philosophical theology, following decades of intense reflection on the tri-personhood of the Christian God. New studies on divine simplicity have been written from the perspective of historical …
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Sacrament of Deification: The Eucharistic Vision of Alexander Schmemann in Light of the Doctrine of Theosis
… study posits that the Eastern Christian doctrine of theosis, or deification, informs, enhances and illuminates Eucharistic understanding. It argues that the Eucharistic vision of Orthodox priest and theologian, Father Alexander Schmemann, offers the most cogent evidence in support of the intrinsic …
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Gregory of Nyssa’s Soteriological Imaginary as a Resource for Nonviolent Soteriology
This project analyzes feminist critiques of the doctrine of the atonement and responds to them by presenting several patterns of constructive, nonviolent atonement language resourced from Gregory of Nyssa’s theology. Chapter One introduces the topic of theological language that is fundamental to …
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Discrimination and Desire: Gregory of Nyssa’s Hagiographical Writing and the Holy Life
During his career at the end of the fourth century, Gregory of Nyssa wrote a significant number of narratives about holy lives. Across his extant texts he articulates the same common goal: to lead the audience into virtue through narrating holy lives. In this, Gregory prompts two questions in the …
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Christ, the Spirit and Human Transformation in Gregory of Nyssa's In Canticum Canticorum
This dissertation undertakes an analysis of Gregory of Nyssa's final work, In Canticum Canticorum. Part I investigates Gregory's earlier works. In Part II, Gregory's fifteen homilies on the Song of Songs are analysed in light of key structures of thought explored in Part I. Special emphasis is …
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Spiritual Struggle and Gregory of Nyssa’s Theory of Perpetual Ascent: An Orthodox Christian Virtue Ethic
… that are in turn mitigated by the particulars of this Orthodox model—spiritual struggle and perpetual progress, or <em>epektasis</em>. Spiritual struggle in this project, which ultimately shifts the emphasis from virtue’s <em>acquisition</em> to its <em>pursuit</em>, is defined as the exertion …
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The Metaphysics of Light in the Hexaemeral Literature: From Philo of Alexandria to Ambrose of Milan
This study investigates the concept of light in the early Jewish-Christian exegesis of the biblical creation narrative (Gen. 1, so-called ‘hexaemeron’). The study argues that the early hexaemeral exegetes theorised light from a dual perspective, both physical and metaphysical. The physical exegesis …