- 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>
Returning to the Trinity
Returning to the Trinity
- Chapter:
- (p.261) 18 Returning to the Trinity
- Source:
- Gregory of Nyssa, Ancient and (Post)modern
- Author(s):
Morwenna Ludlow (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
John Milbank deals with Gregory's concept of the Trinity in only a few brief passages and, although he has written much more on the subject, Coakley's comments are found in various articles on rather different themes. This chapter attempts to pull some of these threads together in respect of each author in order to try to draw some comparative conclusions and to try to investigate how their general interpretations of Gregory's theology — which are among the most sophisticated dealt with in this book — have an effect on their reading specifically of his trinitarian theology.
Keywords: Gregory of Nyssa, John Milbank, Sarah Coakley, trinitarian theology
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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>