Gregory of Nyssa, also known as Gregory Nyssen (‹See Tfd›Greek: Γρηγόριος Νύσσης or Γρηγόριος Νυσσηνός; c. 335 – c. 394), was an early Roman Christian...
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with the brothers Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa, he is known as one of the Cappadocian Fathers. Gregory of Nazianzus is a saint in both Eastern...
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Cappadocian Fathers (category Groups of Roman Catholic saints)
(330–379) was Bishop of Caesarea; Basil's younger brother Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335 – c. 395) was Bishop of Nyssa; and a close friend, Gregory of Nazianzus (329–389)...
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Christian anthropology (redirect from Doctrine of Man)
Christian theology at an early date by St. Gregory of Nyssa and by St. Augustine.—Britannica, 2004 Immortality of the Soul, George Florovsky. Bultmann, I:206...
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Nyssa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nyssa may refer to: Gregory of Nyssa (335–395), 4th-century Christian bishop, theologian, and saint Nyssa (Doctor...
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was elder sister of Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, Naucratius and Peter of Sebaste. Gregory of Nyssa wrote a work entitled Life of Macrina in which...
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Panegyric of Gregory by St. Gregory of Nyssa (P.G., XLVI, col. 893 sqq.); Historia Miraculorum, by Rufinus; an account in Syriac of the great actions of Blessed...
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universal salvation. The dogmatic status of apokatastasis is disputed, and some orthodox fathers such as Gregory of Nyssa taught apokatastasis and were never...
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universalism. St. Gregory of Nyssa, The free library. Gregory of Nyssa, UTM. Brian E. Daley, The Hope of the Early Church: A Handbook of Patristic Eschatology...
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Western Christianity. Basil, together with his brother Gregory of Nyssa and his friend Gregory of Nazianzus, are collectively referred to as the Cappadocian...
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the history of Christianity due to being the see of the prominent 4th century bishop Gregory of Nyssa. Today, its name continues to be used as a titular...
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Numbers, about Nm 33:1–2 Gregory of Nazianzus, Homily n. 43 (Funeral Oration on the Great S. Basil), 71 Gregory of Nyssa, Life of Moses, pp. 224–227 Chrysostom...
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Nazianzus Gregory of Nazianzus, or Gregory the Theologian (died 390), one of the Three Holy Hierarchs Gregory of Nyssa (died after 394), Bishop of Nyssa Gregory...
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of Alexandria Cyril of Alexandria Ephrem the Syrian Basil the Great Gregory Nazianzus Gregory of Nyssa Epiphanius of Salamis John Chrysostom Cyril of...
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the deaconess or wife of a deacon. Gregory Nazianzen wrote a letter of condolence on her death to Gregory of Nyssa in which Gregory Nazianzen mentioned...
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Church Fathers (redirect from Father of the Church)
of Lyons, Clement of Alexandria, Athanasius of Alexandria, the Cappadocian Fathers (Basil of Caesarea, Gregory Nazianzus, Gregory of Nyssa), Peter of...
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Gregory Palamas (Greek: Γρηγόριος Παλαμᾶς; c. 1296 – 1359) was a Byzantine Greek theologian and Eastern Orthodox cleric of the late Byzantine period. A...
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Hypostatic union (redirect from Hypostasis of Christ)
"Gregory of Nyssa's Trinitarian Theology in In Illud: Tunc et ipse filius. His Polemic against Arian Subordinationism and the ἀποκατάστασις". Gregory of...
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Wace, Henry (1893). A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church: Gregory of Nyssa: Dogmatic treatises, etc. 1893. Christian...
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Christian mysticism (redirect from Prayer of Quiet)
among them the idea of theoria or contemplation, taken over by Gregory of Nyssa for example. The Brill Dictionary of Gregory of Nyssa remarks that contemplation...
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Paul the Apostle (redirect from Paul of Tsarsis)
named Saul of Tarsus, commonly known as Paul the Apostle and Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle (c. 5 – c. 64/65 AD) who spread the teachings of Jesus in...
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Afterlife (redirect from Science of afterlife)
and Saints, including Gregory of Nyssa. The Second Council of Constantinople (553 AD) affirmed the orthodoxy of Gregory of Nyssa while simultaneously condemning...
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Hexaemeron (section History of the genre)
resulting in the composition of many other Hexaemeron among his own contemporaries, including his brother Gregory of Nyssa and Ambrose. Among the Latin...
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142–145; Gregory of Nyssa, On the Making of Man, 17; SCh 6, 164–165; and On Virginity, 12.2; SCh 119, 402 [17–20]. Cf. Augustine of Hippo, On the Good of Marriage...
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brother of Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, the famous Christian jurist Naucratius, and Macrina the Younger. He is also known as Peter of Sebasteia...
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mother of Basil the Elder, and the grandmother of Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, Peter of Sebaste, and Macrina the Younger. The works of her grandson...
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Sexuality in Christian demonology (redirect from Sexuality of the demons)
on earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the world at once With men as Angels, without feminine? Gregory of Nyssa (4th century), as well as Ludovico...
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Pope Gregory I (Latin: Gregorius I; c. 540 – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the 64th Bishop of Rome from 3 September 590...
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Apophatic theology (redirect from Way of Negation)
in Plato's allegory of the Cave. Together with the Biblical story of Moses's ascent of Mount Sinai, it is used by Gregory of Nyssa and Pseudo-Dionysius...
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32). It is that he influenced his brother Gregory of Nyssa to write his treatise against the Macedonians, of which only a part has come down to us and...
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