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Without the Son the Father Has Neither Existence Nor Name
Many people fear that the doctrine of the eternal generation of the Son implies a sort of subordination of the Son to the Father, as the Son is dependent upon the Father for his being. However, Greg… more »
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Without the Son the Father Has Neither Existence Nor Name
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Steven W wrote 2 months ago: Many people fear that the doctrine of the eternal generation of the Son implies a sort of subordinat … more »
Ungenerate and Unoriginate
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Steven W wrote 2 months ago: Gregory freely admits that ungenerate is simply a way to say Father (Against Eunomius 1.37) He pref … more »
Nyssa on the Unity of Divine Operations
Steven W wrote 2 months ago: In On “Not Three Gods”, Gregory mentions that the persons of the Godhead are united by t … more »
Nyssa and Absolute Divine Simplicity
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Steven W wrote 2 months ago: Bound up in his adherence to the infinity of the divine nature (which is the only pure being), is Gr … more »
Nyssa on Essence and Energies
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Steven W wrote 2 months ago: Eunomius had relied on Aristotelian metaphysics to construct a theology where the Son and Spirit wer … more »
Cessationism
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zackhensley wrote 2 months ago: Please read full post before commenting! blessings -zack hensley There is a school of thought that s … more »
Nyssa on the Infinity of the Good
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Steven W wrote 2 months ago: In his treatise Against Eunomius, Gregory begins with a discussion on “pure being,” whic … more »
The First Christian Abolitionist
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Matthew Crawford wrote 2 months ago: It is unfortunate that Christians during the nineteenth century in America used supposedly biblical … more »
Gregory of Nyssa on Resurrection
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Macrina wrote 2 months ago: . . . by the Divine providence death has been introduced as a dispensation into the nature of man, s … more »
idols
Nate wrote 3 months ago: Idolatry is the practice of ascribing absolute value to things of relative worth. Under certain cir … more »
Gregory of Nyssa on Baptism
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Macrina wrote 3 months ago: But the descent into the water, and the triune immersion of the person in it, involves another myste … more »
A sense of wonder
abrokencup wrote 3 months ago: This week’s quote comes from the ancient church father Gregory of Nyssa who said this interest … more »
Moses and John
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Carl McColman wrote 4 months ago: Gregory of Nyssa, writing about the life of Moses as an allegory for the mystical life, says “ … more »
Gregory of Nyssa on Resurrection
Macrina wrote 4 months ago: Since, then, there was needed a lifting up from death for the whole of our nature, He stretches fort … more »
Gregory of Nyssa On Death
Adam wrote 4 months ago: When frustrated at life or faced with the sorrows that accompany the death of loved ones, I’ve … more »
Nyssa on Baptism
Steven W wrote 1 year ago: Let us now address ourselves to the next point. What is it that we achieve by holy baptism? Is it … more »
Gregory of Nyssa: Plato, Infinity, and Beyond!
Steven W wrote 1 year ago: Gregory’s idea of God, with which we begin, represents in an original way the conflation of th … more »
Doing Theology with the Early Church
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brainofdtrain wrote 1 year ago: Gregory of Nyssa I have been reading some of the church father’s writings for my Church Histo … more »
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