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    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 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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    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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    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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  • 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 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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    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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    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 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    Nazianzus (Orat. xviii, 5) and Gregory of Nyssa (Contra Eunom. ii), about AD 374. The term has been linked to a body of inscriptions that date from around...
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