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Gregory of Nyssa, Ancient and (Post)modern

by: Ludlow, Morwenna

ISBN: 9780199280766 | 0199280762

Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 11/11/2007

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Summary Table of Contents Author Biography

"In this exciting and original approach to the study of the Church fathers, Morwenna Ludlow analyses many such readings of Gregory of Nyssa and asks what they reveal not only about Gregory himself, but also about modern and postmodern interpretations of the past. The book moves thematically through studies of recent Trinitarian theology, Christology, spirituality, feminism, and postmodern hermeneutics. It claims that although some of the variety can be explained by the different perspectives of Gregory's readers, much is also due to the distinc... MOREtive nature of Gregory's writing." "Gregory believed that the theologian's task is to dive into the depths of Scripture in order to re-express it without exhausting its meaning. In his own writings, Gregory appears to be borrowing both the highly metaphorical language of the Bible and the sophisticated literary and pedagogical techniques of Plato. Ludlow argues that the huge variety of modern readings of Gregory is exactly what we should expect from his creative combination of these two great literary traditions." "In her conclusions, Ludlow sketches out an approach to reading the Church fathers which combines the methods of traditional patristic scholarship with reception-history and theology. Historical and philological studies of Gregory are vital, she argues, for establishing the range of plausible interpretations of his text, but only more creative and constructive theological, philosophical, and literary readings can open up the fruitful possibilities of his writing."--BOOK JACKET.

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, feminism, and postmodern hermeneutics, Ludlow develops an approach to reading the Church Fathers which combines the benefits of traditional scholarship on the early Church with reception-history and theology.

In recent years, the writings of Gregory of Nyssa have been an increasingly popular source for theologians, philosophers, historians, and literary theorists alike. But what arises from these readings is a bewildering range of interpretations: Gregory emerges variously as a bastion of orthodoxy, a suspect neoplatonist, a mystic, a philosopher, an apologist for monasticism, an urbane married man, a misogynist, and an advocate of complete human equality.

Introduction: The Elusive Gregory	p. 1
The Doctrine of the Trinity
Historical and Conceptual Background	p. 13
Philosophy and the Gospel	p. 15
T. F. Torrance	p. 15
Robert W. Jenson	p. 37
The Social Doctrine of the Trinity	p. 51
John Zizioulas	p. 52
David Brown	p. 68
Reading Gregory of Nyssa's Trinitarian Theo... MORElogy	p. 82
God Became Human for Our Salvation
Christology	p. 97
Salvation	p. 108
Spirituality: Perpetual Progress in the Good	p. 125
The Christian Life: Ethics	p. 135
Reading Gregory of Nyssa on Christ, Salvation, and Human Transformation	p. 151
Sex, Gender, and Embodiment
Introduction: Feminism and the Fathers	p. 163
Creation in the Image of God	p. 166
What is Virginity?	p. 182
Macrina-in Life and in Letters	p. 202
Reading Gregory on Sex, Gender, and Embodiment	p. 220
Theology
Apophatic Theology as 'Reaching out to What Lies Ahead'	p. 231
God and Being: Beings and Language	p. 234
Scot Douglass	p. 234
The Gift, Reciprocity, and the Word	p. 247
John Milbank	p. 247
Returning to the Trinity	p. 261
Reading Gregory of Nyssa on Language, Theology, and the Language of Theology	p. 268
Conclusions	p. 279
Tradition, History, and Historiography	p. 279
The Interpretation of Ambiguity: Christian Theology and Pedagogy	p. 287
Select Bibliography	p. 293
Index	p. 307
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Morwenna Ludlow is Lecturer in Patristics, University of Exeter.

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