Description
Book SynopsisThe thought of Gregory of Nyssa, the youngest of the fourth-cenrtury ''Cappadocian'' Fathers, is currently at the centre of a number of important theological debates. This collection of specially commissioned essays calls the long-accepted interpretation of Gregory''s trinitarianism into radical question.
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- Gregory of Nyssa, the youngest of the fourth-century ''Cappadocian'' Fathers, is currently at the centre of a number of important theological debates.
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- Calls the long-accepted interpretation of Gregory''s trinitarianism into radical question.
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- Urges a reading of his ''pedagogy of desire'' that will cause a major reconsideration of his methods of trinitarian exposition.
Table of Contents1 Introduction—Gender, Trinitarian Analogies, and the Pedagogy of The Song 1
Sarah Coakley
2 On Not Three People: The Fundamental Themes of Gregory of Nyssa’s Trinitarian Theology as Seen in To Ablabius: On Not Three Gods 15
Lewis Ayres
3 Divine Unity and the Divided Self: Gregory of Nyssa’s Trinitarian Theology in its Psychological Context 45
Michel René Barnes
4 Divine Transcendence and Human Transformation: Gregory of Nyssa’s Anti-Apollinarian Christology 67
Brian E. Daley, S.J.
5 Under Solomon’s Tutelage: The Education of Desire in the Homilies on the Song of Songs 77
Martin Laird
6 “Person” versus “Individual”, and Other Modern Misreadings of Gregory of Nyssa 97
Lucian Turcescu
7 The Mirror of the Infinite: Gregory of Nyssa on the Vestigia Trinitatis 111
David Bentley Hart
Index 133
