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Book Symposium on Gregory of Nyssa's On the Human Image of God: An Appreciation of Responses
International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 188-196, April 2026.Abstract In response to the review essays by Rowan Williams, Morwenna Ludlow, Gabrielle Thomas, Paul Blowers and Martin Laird, this essay by John Behr addresses questions raised about translation methods and the complexities of understanding Gregory's rhetorical style as integral to his mode of writing theology.
John Behr
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Listy Ojców Kapadockich do kobiet
Vox Patrum, 2013 The letters of the Cappadocian Fathers serve as part of the evidence that in the early Church correspondence of its leaders played an essential role in ensuring its proper functioning.
Jolanta Dybała
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International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 151-160, April 2026.Abstract In this contribution to a book symposium on Gregory of Nyssa's On the Human Image, Morwenna Ludlow reflects on John Behr's attention to the literary structure and argumentative flow of the book, its interplay with the similarly structured Timaeus of Plato and the difficulties of translating a work of such rhetorical and pastoral sophistication
Morwenna Ludlow
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Vox Patrum, 2013 In the following article I try to investigate how the literary means used by Gregory of Nyssa in his works, especially the Life of St. Macrina, the Dialogue about Soul and Resurrection and the Letter 19. are related to the tradition of depicting heroic
Marta Szada
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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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Demons, evil and liminality in Cappadocian theology [PDF]
, 2014 This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Johns Hopkins University Press via the DOI in this recordDespite the growing literature on demons in late antiquity, there has been no detailed study of demons in Cappadocian ...
Ludlow, Morwenna
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Book Symposium Introduction: John Behr, Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God
International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 135-142, April 2026.Abstract This article introduces a series of response essays to John Behr's Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God, which includes contributions from Rowan Williams, Morwenna Ludlow, Paul Blowers, Gabrielle Thomas and Martin Laird – with a final response from John Behr.
Thomas Breedlove, Alex Fogleman
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A Negative Theological Critique of Postmodern Identity Politics
Religions, 2019 This paper leverages the Christian tradition of negative theology (Gregory of Nyssa, Dionysius the Areopagite, Eriugena, Eckhart, Cusanus) in order to think past the impasses of identitarian politics and culture.
William Franke
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The slav reception of Gregory of Nyssa’s works: an overview of early slavonic translations [PDF]
, 2011 Although a lot has been written about the "translatio" of Byzantine Christianity in the mediaeval Slavia orthodoxa, advancing a critical assessment of the Slav reception of the Greek Fathers remains a precarious undertaking.
Sels, Lara
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Thinking the World: Gregory of Nyssa on the Definitive Calling of Humanity
International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 143-150, April 2026.Abstract In this response essay to John Behr’s Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God, Rowan Williams highlights Gregory’s exposition of the complex account of nous and its meaning in relation to sensory embodiment. Nous, in Gregory’s treatise, is the presence of unified divine activity in the diversity of creation.
Rowan Williams
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