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Gregory of Nyssa, Ancient and (Post)modern

Ludlow Morwenna
Innbundet / 2007 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780199280766
Published
2007
Publisher
Oxford University Press
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653 gr
Height
240 mm
Width
160 mm
Thickness
30 mm
Age
UP, 05
Language
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Engelsk
Format
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Innbundet
Number of pages
326

Author
Ludlow Morwenna

Biographical note

Morwenna Ludlow is Lecturer in Patristics, University of Exeter.

Gregory of Nyssa, Ancient and (Post)modern

Ludlow Morwenna
Innbundet / 2007 / Engelsk
Ludlow Morwenna
Innbundet / 2007 / Engelsk
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thorough and up-to-date...[a] very rich treatment of Gregory's theology.

Anthony Meredith. The Journal of Theological Studies.

an ambitious overview of a fascinating subfield in which patristics and systematics interact.

Augustine Casiday, Theology

Morwenna Ludlow's magnificent and assured book has a clarity and a brilliance that shines on a number of levels.

David Jasper, Literature and Theology

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an important new contribution to scholarship on Gregory Nyssen and the Cappadocian...Ludlow's latest book is a fine work, with conclusions that contribute to both Cappadocian scholarship and the broader field of patristics...a volume that will introduce new students to contemporary interpretations of Gregory and engage many long-time readers with new questions and insights into the method of interpreting patristic texts.

Kevin D. Hill, Review of Biblical Literature

This is a valuable contribution to the growing scholarship on Gregory of Nyssa.

Ilaria Ramelli, Review of Biblical Literature

Morwenna Ludlow's magnificent and assured book has a clarity and a brilliance that shines on a number of levels

Literature and Theology

The fourth-century Christian thinker, Gregory of Nyssa, has been the subject of a huge variety of interpretations over the past fifty years, from historians, theologians, philosophers, and others. In this highly original study, Morwenna Ludlow analyses these recent readings of Gregory of Nyssa and asks: What do they reveal about modern and postmodern interpretations of the Christian past? What do they say about the nature of Gregory's writing? Working thematically through studies of recent Trinitarian theology, Christology, spirituality, feminism, and postmodern hermeneutics, Ludlow develops an approach to reading the Church Fathers which combines the benefits of traditional scholarship on the early Church with reception-history and theology.
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The fourth-century Christian thinker, Gregory of Nyssa, has been the subject of a huge variety of interpretations over the past fifty years. Morwenna Ludlow analyses these recent readings, and asks: What do they reveal about modern and postmodern interpretations of the Christian past? What do they say about the nature of Gregory's writing?
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Introduction ; I. THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY ; 1. Historical and conceptual background ; 2. Philosophy and the Gospel ; 3. The social doctrine of the Trinity ; 4. Reading Gregory of Nyssa's Trinitarian theology ; II. GOD BECAME HUMAN FOR OUR SALVATION ; 1. Christology ; 2. Salvation ; 3. Spirituality: perpetual progress in the good ; 4. The Christian life: ethics ; 5. Reading Gregory of Nyssa on Christ, salvation, and human transformation ; III. SEX, GENDER, AND EMBODIMENT ; 1. Introduction: feminism and the Fathers ; 2. Creation in the image of God ; 3. What is virginity? ; 4. Macrina: in life and in letters ; 5. Reading Gregory of Nyssa on sex, gender, and embodiment ; IV. THEOLOGY ; 1. Apophatic theology as 'reaching out to what lies beyond' ; 2. God and being, beings and language: Scott Douglass ; 3. The gift, reciprocity and the word: John Milbank ; 4. Returning to the Trinity ; 5. Reading Gregory of Nyssa on language, theology, and the language of theology ; IV. CONCLUSIONS ; 1. Tradition, history and historiography ; 2. The interpretation of ambiguity: Chritsina theology and pedagogy
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A unique interdisciplinary study of Gregory of Nyssa in particular, and of the problem of modern readings of the Church Fathers in general Raises important questions about the relation of the disciplines of systematic theology and patristics Reflects upon the notions of tradition, authority, theological hermeneutics, and of the range of meaning in an ancient text
Read more
Morwenna Ludlow is Lecturer in Patristics, University of Exeter.
A unique interdisciplinary study of Gregory of Nyssa in particular, and of the problem of modern readings of the Church Fathers in general Raises important questions about the relation of the disciplines of systematic theology and patristics Reflects upon the notions of tradition, authority, theological hermeneutics, and of the range of meaning in an ancient text
Read more

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thorough and up-to-date...[a] very rich treatment of Gregory's theology.

Anthony Meredith. The Journal of Theological Studies.

an ambitious overview of a fascinating subfield in which patristics and systematics interact.

Augustine Casiday, Theology

Morwenna Ludlow's magnificent and assured book has a clarity and a brilliance that shines on a number of levels.

David Jasper, Literature and Theology

See all

an important new contribution to scholarship on Gregory Nyssen and the Cappadocian...Ludlow's latest book is a fine work, with conclusions that contribute to both Cappadocian scholarship and the broader field of patristics...a volume that will introduce new students to contemporary interpretations of Gregory and engage many long-time readers with new questions and insights into the method of interpreting patristic texts.

Kevin D. Hill, Review of Biblical Literature

This is a valuable contribution to the growing scholarship on Gregory of Nyssa.

Ilaria Ramelli, Review of Biblical Literature

Morwenna Ludlow's magnificent and assured book has a clarity and a brilliance that shines on a number of levels

Literature and Theology

The fourth-century Christian thinker, Gregory of Nyssa, has been the subject of a huge variety of interpretations over the past fifty years, from historians, theologians, philosophers, and others. In this highly original study, Morwenna Ludlow analyses these recent readings of Gregory of Nyssa and asks: What do they reveal about modern and postmodern interpretations of the Christian past? What do they say about the nature of Gregory's writing? Working thematically through studies of recent Trinitarian theology, Christology, spirituality, feminism, and postmodern hermeneutics, Ludlow develops an approach to reading the Church Fathers which combines the benefits of traditional scholarship on the early Church with reception-history and theology.
Read more
The fourth-century Christian thinker, Gregory of Nyssa, has been the subject of a huge variety of interpretations over the past fifty years. Morwenna Ludlow analyses these recent readings, and asks: What do they reveal about modern and postmodern interpretations of the Christian past? What do they say about the nature of Gregory's writing?
Read more
Introduction ; I. THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY ; 1. Historical and conceptual background ; 2. Philosophy and the Gospel ; 3. The social doctrine of the Trinity ; 4. Reading Gregory of Nyssa's Trinitarian theology ; II. GOD BECAME HUMAN FOR OUR SALVATION ; 1. Christology ; 2. Salvation ; 3. Spirituality: perpetual progress in the good ; 4. The Christian life: ethics ; 5. Reading Gregory of Nyssa on Christ, salvation, and human transformation ; III. SEX, GENDER, AND EMBODIMENT ; 1. Introduction: feminism and the Fathers ; 2. Creation in the image of God ; 3. What is virginity? ; 4. Macrina: in life and in letters ; 5. Reading Gregory of Nyssa on sex, gender, and embodiment ; IV. THEOLOGY ; 1. Apophatic theology as 'reaching out to what lies beyond' ; 2. God and being, beings and language: Scott Douglass ; 3. The gift, reciprocity and the word: John Milbank ; 4. Returning to the Trinity ; 5. Reading Gregory of Nyssa on language, theology, and the language of theology ; IV. CONCLUSIONS ; 1. Tradition, history and historiography ; 2. The interpretation of ambiguity: Chritsina theology and pedagogy
Read more
A unique interdisciplinary study of Gregory of Nyssa in particular, and of the problem of modern readings of the Church Fathers in general Raises important questions about the relation of the disciplines of systematic theology and patristics Reflects upon the notions of tradition, authority, theological hermeneutics, and of the range of meaning in an ancient text
Read more
Morwenna Ludlow is Lecturer in Patristics, University of Exeter.
A unique interdisciplinary study of Gregory of Nyssa in particular, and of the problem of modern readings of the Church Fathers in general Raises important questions about the relation of the disciplines of systematic theology and patristics Reflects upon the notions of tradition, authority, theological hermeneutics, and of the range of meaning in an ancient text
Read more

Product details

ISBN
9780199280766
Published
2007
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Weight
653 gr
Height
240 mm
Width
160 mm
Thickness
30 mm
Age
UP, 05
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
326

Author
Ludlow Morwenna

Biographical note

Morwenna Ludlow is Lecturer in Patristics, University of Exeter.

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