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practicing being itself

Stephen wrote 1 week ago: Gregory [of Nyssa]’s grasp of the radical ontological disparity between God and creation is ba … more →

Tags: Philosophy, David Bentley Hart, deification, Virtue

Is It Possible To See God?

vhoagland wrote 3 weeks ago: St. Gregory of Nyssa isn’t afraid to ask questions, even ultimate questions. Can we, poor huma … more →

Tags: Passionists, Religion, Christian, Mystery of God, Passionists, Seeing God, The Beatitudes

Like an Inaccessible Rock

vhoagland wrote 3 weeks ago: St. Gregory of Nyssa has a beautiful reflection on God who is inaccessible–like an inaccessible rock … more →

Tags: Religion, Passionists, Passionists, Prayer, God, inaccessible, Contemplation, Christian

Church Fathers on the Psalms

Richard wrote 2 months ago: Two really interesting looking commentaries on the Psalms are Psalms 1-50 and Psalms 51-150 in the A … more →

Tags: Early Church / Fathers, Psalter, Commentary, Psalms, Athanasius, Augustine, Church Fathers, Hippolytus, ORIGEN

Union with God: Luther turns Nyssa upside down!

jantoine wrote 2 months ago: Martin Luther’s and Gregory of Nyssa’s Understanding of “Union with God” A Comparative Essay Gregory … more →

Tags: Anthropology, Eschatology, Regent College, Religion, Christian, Christianity, Essay, forensic imputation, from glory to glory

Gregory on the Abolitionism of the Resurrection

adamsteward wrote 2 months ago: J. Kameron Carter’s intricately structured book, Race: A Theological Account, is divided into … more →

Tags: Christology, Race, J. Kameron Carter, Slavery

Presenting all humanity to its God and Father

Macrina wrote 3 months ago:   … just as by having shared in the washing of regeneration He became “the first-born among ma … more →

Tags: Easter

Final Lecture: the fear of obedience2 comments

Andy wrote 3 months ago: Foucault’s final lecture (whose 25th anniversary was on Saturday: I celebrated by getting a cold) ma … more →

Tags: Foucault, le courage de la vérité, Collège de France, Desert Fathers, Philosophy, Theology

Feast of St. Gregory of Nyssa7 comments

marshmk wrote 4 months ago: Most journeys can be understood in three parts – leaving, traveling, and arrival. We leave wit … more →

Tags: Saints, Liturgical Feasts and Fasts, Epektasis, Epectasis, Spiritual journey, Eternal Progress

Desire 2 comments

notesfromaroom wrote 4 months ago: [God is limitless], and that which is limitless cannot by its nature be understood. And so every des … more →

Tags: Religion

Incomprehensibility 1 comment

notesfromaroom wrote 4 months ago: The more [the soul] approaches the vision [of God], so much the more does it see that the divine nat … more →

Tags: Religion

Nature, grace, and anachronism8 comments

Adam Kotsko wrote 4 months ago: In the literature on Anselm, I’ve noticed what seems to me to be a real anxiety to make sure t … more →

Tags: anselm, Barth, aquinas

Beyond the Apophatic1 comment

Adam Kotsko wrote 4 months ago: Martin Laird, in his recent study Gregory of Nyssa and the Grasp of Faith: Union, Knowledge, and Div … more →

Tags: apophasis

Unceasing desire2 comments

Macrina wrote 6 months ago: He would not have shown himself to his servant if the sight were such as to bring the desire of the … more →

Incarnation

marshmk wrote 6 months ago: “O inexpressible mystery and unheard paradox: the Invisible is seen, the Intangible is touched , t … more →

Tags: Patristics, Church Seasons, Liturgical Feasts and Fasts, Christmas, nativity, Orthodox, Incarnation

Death Is Dead1 comment

Kevin Watson wrote 9 months ago: Yesterday, I turned in my first paper for my History of Doctrine class. The PhD students in the clas … more →

Tags: Book Review, Resurrection, Athanasius

a false likeness ...

logismon wrote 10 months ago: “For Saint Gregory of Nyssa, every concept relative to God is a simulacrum, a false likeness, an … more →

Tags: apophatic, Orthodox Christianity, Vladimir Lossky

Favourite word 3- 'indigo'

aoradh wrote 10 months ago: Indigo. Another lovely word. I think it reminds me of something half remembered from primary school … more →

Tags: spirituality, Indigo

Gregory of Nyssa on Universals

Eric Parker wrote 1 year ago: According to F. Copleston the Greek Fathers were generally influenced by Platonism and neo-Platonic … more →

Tags: Philosophy, 20th Cent. Theologians, Church Fathers, Neo-Platonism, frederick copleston, universals, logos, Philonism


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