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Gregory of Nyssa, Ancient and (Post)modern

ISBN: 9780199677986 | 0199677980
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 5/19/2013

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
The fourth-century Christian thinker, Gregory of Nyssa, has been the subject of a huge variety of interpretations over the past fifty years, from historians, theologians, philosophers, and others. In this highly original study, Morwenna Ludlow analyses these recent readings of Gregory of Nyssa and asks: What do they reveal about modern and postmodern interpretations of the Christian past? What do they say about the nature of Gregory's writing? Working thematically through studies of recent Trinitarian theology, Christology, spirituality, femini... MORE

Introduction
I. The Doctrine of the Trinity
1. Historical and conceptual background
2. Philosophy and the Gospel
3. The social doctrine of the Trinity
4. Reading Gregory of Nyssa's Trinitarian theology
II. God Became Human for our Salvation
1. Christology
2. Salvation
3. Spirituality: perpetual progress in the good
4. The Christian life: ethics
5. Reading Gregory of Nyssa on Christ, salvation, and human transformation
III. Sex, Gender, and Embodiment
... MORE

Morwenna Ludlow is Lecturer in Patristics at the University of Exeter.

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