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Human Nature in Gregory of Nyssa [PDF]

, 2000
This study in the thought of Gregory of Nyssa seeks to demonstrate in what sense and to what extent the philosophical notion of universal human nature functions as the systematic backbone of this church father's theology.; Readership: All those ...
Zachhuber, Johannes
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Σχεσισ and ομοουσιοσ in Gregory of Nyssa’s Contra Eunomium: metaphysical contest and gains to trinitarian thought

Vox Patrum, 2018
The development of Trinitarian thought that occurred in Gregory of Nyssa’s Contra Eunomium has led some to think that in his debate with Eunomius Gregory introduced a tritheist mode of thinking (G.C. Stead).
Ilaria Vigorelli
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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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Apokatastaza po Orygenesie - casus Grzegorza z Nyssy (APOKATASTASIS AFTER ORIGEN - GREGORY OF NYSSA'S CASUS) [PDF]

Analiza i Egzystencja, 2006
The philosophical concept of apokatastasis means literally restoration of the primal state of things. This concept may be considered in philosophy both in cosmic categories as a reconstitution of the primordial order of cosmos and also in reference to ...
Wojciech Szczerba
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The Role of Natural Theology and Its Sources in the Anti-Eunomian Discourse Concerning Comprehensibility of God

Seminare, 2022
Basil and Gregory criticized dialectics on the grounds that it tries to usurp the truths that could only be known through Revelation. Nevertheless, the Church Fathers developed natural theology in which they deliberately used arguments based on sensual ...
Karolina Kochańczyk-Bonińska
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Eros as the Meeting of Ecstasies in Christ: The Eucharistic Link between Divine and Human Love in Dionysius the Areopagite

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Dionysius's vision of eros as a meeting of reciprocal ecstasies – where lover and beloved each pass out of themselves and into the other – has often been read as unifying dimensions of love otherwise thought to stand in tension, such as giving and receiving.
Noah Karger
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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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Gregory of Nyssa and Apocatastasis

, 2023
Religion 243: Ancient and Medieval Christian Theology Thesis: Gregory of Nyssa\u27s arguments in favor of apocatastasis are very ...
Fields, Weston
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Saint Irenaeus, Origen, and Saint Gregory of Nyssa: Continuity in Approach to Apokatastasis [PDF]

Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2016
The article covers the concept of universal salvation (apokatastasis) in the works of St Irenaeus of Lyons, Origen, and St Gregory of Nyssa. The attempt is made to systematize both similarities and differences in their approaches.
Olga Bulgakova
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Friendship with God as an Ultimate Ideal in the Writings of Philo of Alexandria

Acta Universitatis Carolinae Theologica, 2021
Philo of Alexandria wrote about what it meant to be a ‘friend of God’ in relation to key biblical figures. This article explores to what extent Philo’s understanding of the human relationship to God was inspired by the Greek concept of friendship based ...
Markéta Dudziková
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