@phdthesis{__2026,
	address = {Athèna},
	type = {Διδακτορική Διατριβή},
	title = {Οι περί των φύλων θεολογικές θεωρήσεις του Αγίου Γρηγορίου Νύσσης},
	url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/60950},
	abstract = {The purpose of the present doctoral dissertation is an in-depth study of the gender-related views of the Cappadocian Father Gregory of Nyssa, situated within a historical and theological framework that transcends his own era—past and future alike. This central theme opens multiple avenues for examining the question of gender: from mythology and antiquity to philosophy and dramatic poetry; from the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christian traditions to theology and contemporary feminist thought. At the core of the present research stands the female sex—woman or the feminine—around whose existence, status, role, and embodied reality a multifaceted, multilayered, intersectional, and interdisciplinary dialectic has remained alive through the centuries. The dissertation’s content is visibly unevenly oriented toward the two sexes, with the majority of its specific problematics concerning the ways in which woman and the feminine are perceived, managed, approached, and understood. This imbalance arises as a consequence of one single diachronic stereotype: that woman differs from man and constitutes an inferior, lesser, and problematic version of the latter.Gregory of Nyssa’s views are examined within the historical and theological context of the issue of gender differentiation within the human race and are placed within the historical and theological trajectory that begins with the mythology of ancient peoples and extends to the radical positions of contemporary Christian feminist theologians. The aim of this theological and historical contextualization of the central theme was the working hypothesis that Gregory of Nyssa both knows and, to a certain extent, adopts androcentric and patriarchal interpretations of reality and of anthropology. From this perspective, the way he conceives, perceives, understands, interprets, and articulates matters of gender acquires a new dynamism, is evaluated differently, opens new dialectical trajectories, and leads to different conclusions. Undoubtedly, the gender-related views of this fourth-century Cappadocian Father transcend the already broad boundaries of Christian theology, extend into philosophy, and interact with Platonic and Neoplatonic currents.The dissertation is divided into five (5) levels, which sequentially examine: gender concepts prior to Gregory of Nyssa’s era; approaches to gender in East and West up to the fourth century; theological anthropology and the sexes in Gregory of Nyssa’s thought; the place of his views within the patristic tradition; and their role in the effort to construct a robust feminist theology today. Each of these levels expands toward different extensions of the central and secondary problematics, with the aim of covering as deeply and as extensively as possible how the Cappadocian Father understands gender theologically. Certainly, the present dissertation does not aspire to function as a “handbook” of gender theology, but rather to constitute an informative study for readers who wish to gain deeper knowledge of the development of gender concepts and to reposition themselves within contemporary dialectic, having engaged with the original, distinctive, and innovative thought of Gregory of Nyssa. In our view, labels applied to theology (such as “patriarchal theology,” “feminist theology,” “liberation theology,” etc.) that are chosen to determine the teleological perspective of a theological line and to serve a commitment to the prevalence of an ideological objective cannot be adopted, because—regardless of their dogmatic accuracy or their traditionalist or radical point of departure—they clash with the ethical demand proper to theology, transforming the Church’s soteriological purpose into a means for serving other aims lacking an ecclesiological foundation. By contrast, other designations that simply indicate an emphasis on the study of a soteriological aspect of theology—such as Eucharistic theology, ecumenical and missiological theology, the theology of otherness, border theology, the theology of compassion, of love, of mercy, and so forth—are appropriate, because they do not deviate from the Church’s ecclesiological and soteriological purpose. The research question concerns whether Gregory of Nyssa is merely an isolated and solitary voice of his time that can be read in an emancipated manner apart from the Christian context of the first millennium and be utilized within a committed theology of gender, or whether he belongs to the choir of the Fathers of the Church—a fact that dictates studying him within the context of Sacred Tradition. The dissertation concludes with the author-researcher’s findings, in which emphasis is placed on questions and reflections that may prove helpful to those who have an interest in this subject.},
	language = {el},
	urldate = {2026-02-23},
	school = {Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (ΕΚΠΑ). Σχολή Θεολογική. Τμήμα Κοινωνικής Θεολογίας και Θρησκειολογίας. Τομέας Φιλοσοφίας, Κοινωνιολογίας και Θρησκειολογίας},
	author = {Σίδερης, Γεώργιος-Ραφαήλ},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Accepted: 2026-02-19T10:13:54Z
Journal Abbreviation: The theological views on gender of Saint Gregory of Nyssa},
	keywords = {Gender, Genre, Sex, Sexe},
}

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