Morwenna Ludlow

Gregory of Nyssa, Ancient and (Post)Modern

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Produktbeschreibung

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?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 497g
• ISBN-13: 9780199677986
• ISBN-10: 0199677980
• Artikelnr.: 36964004

Autorenporträt

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