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Re-thinking Gregory of Nyssa Sarah Coakley (Harvard Divinity School)

Re-thinking Gregory of Nyssa By Sarah Coakley (Harvard Divinity School)

Re-thinking Gregory of Nyssa by Sarah Coakley (Harvard Divinity School)


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The thought of Gregory of Nyssa, the youngest of the fourth--cenrtury a Cappadociana Fathers, is currently at the centre of a number of important theological debates. This collection of specially commissioned essays calls the long--accepted interpretation of Gregorya s trinitarianism into radical question.

Re-thinking Gregory of Nyssa Summary

Re-thinking Gregory of Nyssa by Sarah Coakley (Harvard Divinity School)

The thought of Gregory of Nyssa, the youngest of the fourth-cenrtury 'Cappadocian' Fathers, is currently at the centre of a number of important theological debates. This collection of specially commissioned essays calls the long-accepted interpretation of Gregory's trinitarianism into radical question.

  • Gregory of Nyssa, the youngest of the fourth-century 'Cappadocian' Fathers, is currently at the centre of a number of important theological debates.

  • Calls the long-accepted interpretation of Gregory's trinitarianism into radical question.

  • Urges a reading of his 'pedagogy of desire' that will cause a major reconsideration of his methods of trinitarian exposition.

About Sarah Coakley (Harvard Divinity School)

Sarah Coakley is the Mallinckrodt Professor at Harvard Divinity School.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction-Gender, Trinitarian Analogies, and the Pedagogy of The Song 1
Sarah Coakley

2 On Not Three People: The Fundamental Themes of Gregory of Nyssa's Trinitarian Theology as Seen in To Ablabius: On Not Three Gods 15
Lewis Ayres

3 Divine Unity and the Divided Self: Gregory of Nyssa's Trinitarian Theology in its Psychological Context 45
Michel Rene Barnes

4 Divine Transcendence and Human Transformation: Gregory of Nyssa's Anti-Apollinarian Christology 67
Brian E. Daley, S.J.

5 Under Solomon's Tutelage: The Education of Desire in the Homilies on the Song of Songs 77
Martin Laird

6 Person versus Individual, and Other Modern Misreadings of Gregory of Nyssa 97
Lucian Turcescu

7 The Mirror of the Infinite: Gregory of Nyssa on the Vestigia Trinitatis 111
David Bentley Hart

Index 133

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NLS9781405106375
9781405106375
1405106379
Re-thinking Gregory of Nyssa by Sarah Coakley (Harvard Divinity School)
New
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
2003-02-28
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