Gregory of Nyssa, Ancient and (Post)modern

Contents

• 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
• 1 Introduction: feminism and the Fathers
• 2 Creation in the image of God
• 3 What is virginity?
• 4 Macrina: in life and in letters
• 5 Reading Gregory of Nyssa on sex, gender, and embodiment
• IV. Theology
• 1 Apophatic theology as `reaching out to what lies beyond'
• 2 God and being, beings and language: Scott Douglass
• 3 The gift, reciprocity and the word: John Milbank
• 4 Returning to the Trinity
• 5 Reading Gregory of Nyssa on language, theology, and the language of theology
• IV. Conclusions
• 1 Tradition, history and historiography
• 2 The interpretation of ambiguity: Chritsina theology and pedagogy