- Title Pages
- <i>To Piers</i>
- <i>Preface</i>
- <b>Introduction: The Elusive Gregory</b>
- <b>Part I</b> <b>The Doctrine of the Trinity</b>
- 1 <b>Historical and Conceptual Background</b>
- 2 Philosophy and the Gospel
- 3 The Social Doctrine of the Trinity
- 4 Reading Gregory of Nyssa's Trinitarian Theology
- Part II God Became Human for Our Salvation
- 5 Christology
- 6 Salvation
- 7 Spirituality: Perpetual Progress inthe Good
- 8 The Christian Life: Ethics
- 9 Reading Gregory of Nyssa on Christ, Salvation, and Human Transformation
- Part III Sex, Gender, and Embodiment
- 10 Introduction: Feminism and the Fathers
- 11 Creation in the Image of God
- 12 <b>What is Virginity?</b>
- 13 Macrina—in Life and in Letters
- 14 Reading Gregory on Sex, Gender, and Embodiment
- 15 Apophatic Theology as ‘Reaching out to What Lies Ahead’
- 16 God and Being: Beings and Language
- 17 The Gift, Reciprocity, and the Word
- 18 Returning to the Trinity
- 19 Reading Gregory of Nyssa on Language, Theology, and the Language of Theology
- 20 <b>Conclusions</b>
- <i>Select Bibliography</i>
- <i>Index</i>
- <b>Citations of works by Gregory of Nyssa</b>
Reading Gregory of Nyssa on Christ, Salvation, and Human Transformation
Reading Gregory of Nyssa on Christ, Salvation, and Human Transformation
- Chapter:
- (p.151) 9 Reading Gregory of Nyssa on Christ, Salvation, and Human Transformation
- Source:
- Gregory of Nyssa, Ancient and (Post)modern
- Author(s):
Morwenna Ludlow (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter offers some reflections on how Gregory is read, to what extent these readings reflect developments in recent theology and the study of patristics, and to what extent they reflect ambiguities in Gregory's own thought. Although the questions asked mirror those dealt with at the end of Part I, it is shown that while some answers demonstrate the same patterns of reading, other answers are strikingly different.
Keywords: Christian theology, Christian doctrine, readings, patristics
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- Title Pages
- <i>To Piers</i>
- <i>Preface</i>
- <b>Introduction: The Elusive Gregory</b>
- <b>Part I</b> <b>The Doctrine of the Trinity</b>
- 1 <b>Historical and Conceptual Background</b>
- 2 Philosophy and the Gospel
- 3 The Social Doctrine of the Trinity
- 4 Reading Gregory of Nyssa's Trinitarian Theology
- Part II God Became Human for Our Salvation
- 5 Christology
- 6 Salvation
- 7 Spirituality: Perpetual Progress inthe Good
- 8 The Christian Life: Ethics
- 9 Reading Gregory of Nyssa on Christ, Salvation, and Human Transformation
- Part III Sex, Gender, and Embodiment
- 10 Introduction: Feminism and the Fathers
- 11 Creation in the Image of God
- 12 <b>What is Virginity?</b>
- 13 Macrina—in Life and in Letters
- 14 Reading Gregory on Sex, Gender, and Embodiment
- 15 Apophatic Theology as ‘Reaching out to What Lies Ahead’
- 16 God and Being: Beings and Language
- 17 The Gift, Reciprocity, and the Word
- 18 Returning to the Trinity
- 19 Reading Gregory of Nyssa on Language, Theology, and the Language of Theology
- 20 <b>Conclusions</b>
- <i>Select Bibliography</i>
- <i>Index</i>
- <b>Citations of works by Gregory of Nyssa</b>
