Gregory of Nyssa, Ancient and (Post)modern
- Author: Ludlow, Morwenna
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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