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The Doctrine of the Infinity of God and Its Implications: Clement of Alexandria and Gregory of Nyssa

Verbum Vitae
This article aims to demonstrate that the concept of God’s infinity, as developed by Gregory of Nyssa in many of his works, may have been influenced by earlier Christian theology, rather than solely by Plotinus’ philosophy, as many contemporary scholars
Damian Mrugalski
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The Unity, Power and Energy of the Holy Trinity in the Theology of Gregory of Nyssa

Studia Ceranea, 2023
The article discusses the problem of the ontological distinction between God’s transcendence and immanence in the theological thought of Gregory of Nyssa, a Church Father of the 4th century.
Viktor Zhukovskyy
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WHY WAS ST GREGORY OF NYSSA NEVER CONDEMNED FOR HIS DOCTRINE OF APOKATASTASIS?

Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia, 2022
This article will first point out that St Gregory of Nyssa supported the doctrine of apokatastasis or universal restoration as grounded in Christ and in defence of Christian “orthodoxy” against Arian tendencies—as Origen, his great inspirer, had done ...
Ilaria L.E. RAMELLI
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NATURE MAKES AN ASCENT FROM THE LOWER TO THE HIGHER: GREGORY OF NYSSA ON HUMAN DISTINCTIVENESS

Zygon, 2023
This essay explores the way in which early Christian writers held an eschatological understanding of what it is to be human, something that is to be attained, through the transformation of death and resurrection, and something that requires our assent ...
J. Behr
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Gregory of Nyssa’s Treatment of Ancient Beliefs in his Homilies

Religions
In his many homilies, Gregory of Nyssa contrasts Christian belief to earlier forms of belief that were still very present in the Roman empire during the fourth century, namely the classical polytheistic faith and Judaism, with the explicit intention of ...
Jonathan Farrugia
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Rendering Trauma Beneficial… for Whom? Gregory of Nyssa’s Homily 12 on the Song of Songs

Vox Patrum
Gregory’s Homily 12 on the Song of Songs offers one opportunity to trace the legacies of the compelling claim, in Galatians 6:17, that Paul bears “the marks of Christ” on his body. Gregory appeals to this verse to aid his exegesis of Song 5:7 (a violent
Maria Dasios
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Nomad Thought: Using Gregory of Nyssa and Deleuze and Guattari to Deterritorialize Mysticism

Religions, 2022
This article compares the mysticism of 4th-century Church Father Gregory of Nyssa to the nomadology of 20th century philosophers Deleuze and Guattari. In their book A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari returned to the figure of the nomad in order to
Arianne Conty
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To whom can God speak?

TheoLogica, 2022
The theological works of Gregory of Nyssa have proved fertile ground for modern philosophers or theologians seeking to give a good account of the Trinity.
Derek S. King
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The Normativity of Measure in Gregory Nazianzus’ and Gregory of Nyssa’s Orations on Love for the Destitute Poor

Vox Patrum, 2021
Gregory Nazianzus and Gregory of Nyssa between them composed three orations on love of the destitute poor: Nazianzen's Oration 14, Peri philoptōchias and Nyssen's On love of the poor 1 and 2 (De beneficentia and In illud: quatenus uni ex his fecistis ...
Monica Tobon
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In which time and world do we live?

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023
This article contributed to a project about Nature and Theology (Prof. Dr. J. Buitendag). The text questioned why our modern concept of nature must be reformulated in a contemporary concept of nature as the anthropocentrism of the modern concept of ...
Toine van den Hoogen
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