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Gregory of Nyssa’s Engagement with Conceptual Metaphors:The Analogies of “Father,” “Son,” and “Begetting” in the Against Eunomius [PDF]

, 2019
This essay explores what Gregory of Nyssa is doing when he claims in Against Eunomius that his use of the language of “father,” “son” and “begetting” for the divine is supported by the “apprehension of ordinary people” and by the“ judgement of nature ...
Sandwell, Isabella
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From abstraction to unsaying: how the Eunomian controversy changed Gregory of Nyssa’s aphairetic ethics to an apophatic ethics

Vox Patrum, 2018
In early Christian thinking negative theology was often applied for polemi­cal purposes, as a means of asserting the Christian distinction between God and everything else.
Johannes Aakjær Steenbuch
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Being, History, and Mercy: The Oikonomia in the Discussion between Gregory of Nyssa and Eunomius [PDF]

, 2018
Lo studio percorre gli usi del termine oikonomia e dei suoi derivati nelle opere di Gregorio di Nissa dedicate alla discussione con Eunomio. La prospettiva analitica permette di ricostruire teologicamente la valenza ontologica della misericordia dalla ...
Solano Pinzón, Orlando, Maspero, Giulio
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Incomprehensibility of God and the Trinitarian controversy of the fourth century

Vox Patrum, 2014
Chociaż koncepcja niepoznawalności Boga zawsze była w Kościele obecna, to w pierwszych wiekach bardziej istotne było ukazanie Boga bliskiego dzięki łasce i wcieleniu. W IV w.
Karolina Kochańczyk-Bonińska, Marta Przyszychowska   +1 more
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Book "On Faith" by St. Basil the Great: Context, Structure and Addressee

Forum Theologicum Sardicense
The article examines St. Basil the Great’s work “On Faith” (Περὶ Πίστεως; PG 31, 676–692; CPG 2886). The author classifies it as one of the early works of the saint, suggesting that it was written around 365 AD.
Kalin Angelov
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Comparisons Ancient and Modern: Was Cyril of Alexandria a Good Reader of Paul?

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Cyril of Alexandria is the final stop on Michael Magree's analysis of the patristic interpretation of Pauline kenosis, serving as the culmination of the historical arc he surveys. Although Magree is careful to avoid overtly judging the success of various interpreters as readers of the Apostle, it is clear that he finds Cyril's appropriation of
Matthew R. Crawford
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GOD AND BEINGIN BASIL OF CAESAREA [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2011
The article attempts to deepen our understanding of the problem of God’s essence in Saint Basil. Does Saint Basil identify God with being or does he exclusively wish to prove God’s total incomprehensibility?
A. GAGINSKY
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The Diremption of Meaning

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining work by Rowan Williams, this essay explores what he often refers to as the ‘difficulty’ of writing theology. The difficulty of theology lies in engaging the ruse of having ultimate answers to ultimate questions. The stakes are high: ‘God‐talk’ must concern itself with truth, with reality.
Graham Ward
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Badiou and the Reconstruction of the Concept of God

Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 187-209, January 2026.
Abstract In this article I first summarize Badiou’s and Žižek’s critique of the concept of God, which I and other interpreters conceive as a radicalization of the theology of the death of God. I then pose the question of how to formulate a positive conception of God after the death of God that would overcome the limits of negative or apophatic theology.
Michael Hauser
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Language and theology in St Gregory of Nyssa [PDF]

, 2002
This MA thesis focuses on the work of one of the most influential and authoritative theologians of the early Church: St Gregory of Nyssa (†396). My topic of research consists in the relationship between language and theology, as it shaped in Gregory’s ...
Neamţu, Mihail G.
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