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Salvage: Macrina and the Christian Project of Cultural Reclamation [PDF]

, 2012
While many have seen the equation between Macrina and Socrates drawn in the Treatise on the Soul and the Resurrection as Gregory of Nyssa’s attempt to honor his sister, a closer look at Gregory’s attitude about the relative power of Christianity at the ...
Ellen Muehlberger
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Reclaiming Heaven from History: A Theological Critique of Martin Hägglund's This Life

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 248-269, April 2025.
Abstract Martin Hägglund's This Life offers an incisive critique of Christian visions of eternal life. Theological responses to Hägglund emphasize the ‘worldly’ nature of heaven over‐against overly Platonic, ‘otherworldly’ accounts of everlasting life.
Jared Michelson
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St. Gregory of Nyssa: The Life of St. Macrina

Forum Theologicum Sardicense
Helena Panczova, St. Gregory of Nyssa: The Life of St. Macrina. This paper examines the content, form, and dating of Macrina’s death. In the second part, the imagery of the ‘philosophic’ life is analysed in greater detail, including the evolving meaning ...
Helena Panczova
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The Darkling Lights of Lucifer: Annihilation, Tradition, and Hell

, 2013
Gregory of Nyssa is famous for defending both the doctrine of epektasis, the continual ascent of the blessed toward God, and, in places, the doctrine of apokatastasis, the eventual restoration to God of all creation, including the Devil.
McCullough, Ross W.
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Theology and Allegory: Origen and Gregory of Nyssa on the unity and diversity of Scripture [PDF]

, 2014
© 2002 by WileyOrigen and Gregory of Nyssa use allegorical exegesis to derive a unified meaning from the diversity of the scriptural text. However, they have different answers to the question of where, or in what, scripture’s unity lies, which lead to ...
Ludlow, Morwenna
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Participation in Christ and Divine and Human Righteousness: Reading Paul with Gregory of Nyssa

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 166-192, April 2025.
Abstract Participation in Christ and divine and human righteousness are vital, yet perennially debated, Pauline motifs. Arguably, what is most distinctive and crucial about ‘righteousness’ in Paul's epistles is its christological re‐definition in texts such as 1 Cor 1:30.
Joshua Heavin
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Lex Orandi, Lex Operandi: The Relationship of Worship and Work in the Early Church [PDF]

, 1987
(Excerpt) We are all familiar with the famous dictum of Prosper of Aquitaine, who in the fifth century coined the axiom, lex orandi, lex credendi. I propose a variation on this principle by suggesting lex orandi, lex operandi, the law of prayer gives ...
Volz, Carl A
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Cement and displacement

American Ethnologist, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 31-43, February 2025.
Abstract Displaced people have not escaped war and do not live apart from it. This is evident in the material life of internally displaced Iraqi farmers seeking refuge in a concrete construction site, downstream from a cement‐processing plant in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Kali Rubaii
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God is Not a Thing: A Response to Dale Tuggy

TheoLogica, 2020
Dale Tuggy has argued that all Trinitarians are committed to the nonsensical belief that the one God is the Trinity (where "is" expresses identity). In his submission to the current journal, Tuggy argues that this position began not, as some Orthodox ...
Andrew Radde-Gallwitz
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Seeing Otherwise: ‘The Least of These’ and Revelation in Jean‐Luc Marion

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 54-71, January 2025.
Abstract In his familiar essay in Phenomenology and the ‘Theological Turn’, Jean‐François Courtine writes that the ‘cardinal experience’ of revelatory phenomena would undoubtedly be the incarnation. But in its singularity, this experience, he admits, seems to elude phenomenological thought.
Thomas Breedlove
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