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?
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?
Morwenna Ludlow, Lecturer in Patristics, University of Exeter
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * I. The Doctrine of the Trinity * 1: Historical and conceptual background * 2: Philosophy and the Gospel * 3: The social doctrine of the Trinity * 4: Reading Gregory of Nyssa's Trinitarian theology * II. God Became Human for our Salvation * 1: Christology * 2: Salvation * 3: Spirituality: perpetual progress in the good * 4: The Christian life: ethics * 5: Reading Gregory of Nyssa on Christ, salvation, and human transformation * III. Sex, Gender, and Embodiment * 1: Introduction: feminism and the Fathers * 2: Creation in the image of God * 3: What is virginity? * 4: Macrina: in life and in letters * 5: Reading Gregory of Nyssa on sex, gender, and embodiment * IV. Theology * 1: Apophatic theology as `reaching out to what lies beyond' * 2: God and being, beings and language: Scott Douglass * 3: The gift, reciprocity and the word: John Milbank * 4: Returning to the Trinity * 5: Reading Gregory of Nyssa on language, theology, and the language of theology * IV. Conclusions * 1: Tradition, history and historiography * 2: The interpretation of ambiguity: Chritsina theology and pedagogy
* Introduction * I. The Doctrine of the Trinity * 1: Historical and conceptual background * 2: Philosophy and the Gospel * 3: The social doctrine of the Trinity * 4: Reading Gregory of Nyssa's Trinitarian theology * II. God Became Human for our Salvation * 1: Christology * 2: Salvation * 3: Spirituality: perpetual progress in the good * 4: The Christian life: ethics * 5: Reading Gregory of Nyssa on Christ, salvation, and human transformation * III. Sex, Gender, and Embodiment * 1: Introduction: feminism and the Fathers * 2: Creation in the image of God * 3: What is virginity? * 4: Macrina: in life and in letters * 5: Reading Gregory of Nyssa on sex, gender, and embodiment * IV. Theology * 1: Apophatic theology as `reaching out to what lies beyond' * 2: God and being, beings and language: Scott Douglass * 3: The gift, reciprocity and the word: John Milbank * 4: Returning to the Trinity * 5: Reading Gregory of Nyssa on language, theology, and the language of theology * IV. Conclusions * 1: Tradition, history and historiography * 2: The interpretation of ambiguity: Chritsina theology and pedagogy
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