Participation in the Divine in Gregory of Nyssa. Ramelli, I. L. E. In Hedley, D. & Tolan, D. J., editors, Participation in the Divine: A Philosophical History, From Antiquity to the Modern Era, of Cambridge Studies in Religion and Platonism, pages 99–127. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024. ![Participation in the Divine in Gregory of Nyssa [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex Gregory of Nyssa is the most philosophically minded of the Cappadocian Fathers and one of the most insightful interpreters of Origen.1 Harold Cherniss (1930–1971) considered Gregory a Platonist thinker thinly plated with Christianity; Jean Daniélou and others thought that Gregory progressively abandoned Platonism and/or Origen; I suspect that the latter option is not really the case (2018b), but Cherniss’s thesis is not tenable either. Von Balthasar (1942) and other scholars have seen Gregory as a great innovator with respect to Greek metaphysics.2 I have detected a consistency in his Christian Platonism3 – a consistency that has been denied: Gregory has been represented as confused and contradictory as a philosopher (e.g. Stead 1976); however, this position does not take into account that Gregory’s philosophical theology was not simply Platonism, but Christian Platonism,4 specifically Patristic Platonism, like that of Origen.5
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address = {Cambridge},
series = {Cambridge {Studies} in {Religion} and {Platonism}},
title = {Participation in the {Divine} in {Gregory} of {Nyssa}},
isbn = {978-1-00-944002-8},
url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/participation-in-the-divine/participation-in-the-divine-in-gregory-of-nyssa/9674FE21EA0F4FDD4526F8A84357F23C},
abstract = {Gregory of Nyssa is the most philosophically minded of the Cappadocian Fathers and one of the most insightful interpreters of Origen.1 Harold Cherniss (1930–1971) considered Gregory a Platonist thinker thinly plated with Christianity; Jean Daniélou and others thought that Gregory progressively abandoned Platonism and/or Origen; I suspect that the latter option is not really the case (2018b), but Cherniss’s thesis is not tenable either. Von Balthasar (1942) and other scholars have seen Gregory as a great innovator with respect to Greek metaphysics.2 I have detected a consistency in his Christian Platonism3 – a consistency that has been denied: Gregory has been represented as confused and contradictory as a philosopher (e.g. Stead 1976); however, this position does not take into account that Gregory’s philosophical theology was not simply Platonism, but Christian Platonism,4 specifically Patristic Platonism, like that of Origen.5},
urldate = {2024-12-04},
booktitle = {Participation in the {Divine}: {A} {Philosophical} {History}, {From} {Antiquity} to the {Modern} {Era}},
publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
author = {Ramelli, Ilaria L. E.},
editor = {Hedley, Douglas and Tolan, Daniel J.},
year = {2024},
doi = {10.1017/9781009440028.007},
keywords = {Ancient Philosophy, Origen, Origène, Participation, Philosophie antique, Platonism, Platonisme},
pages = {99--127},
}
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