Re-thinking Gregory of Nyssa / Edition 1

by Sarah Coakley

Overview

The 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781405106375
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	03/21/2003
Series:	Directions in Modern Theology , #1
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	6.13(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.33(d)

About the Author

Sarah Coakley is the Mallinckrodt Professor at Harvard Divinity School.

Table of Contents

1 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