Gregor Perušek--Harvey Gregory Prusheck

This collection brings together an interdisciplinary team of historians, classicists, philosophers, and theologians for a holistic exploration of the thought of Gregory of Nyssa. T...

The Introduction makes the case for reading Gregory’s corpus synoptically and through the prism of literary and rhetorical analysis. It begins with a case study of a digression on ...

"[Sh]ould take a prominent place on the shelf of literature about the man who changed 20th century America."Publishers Weekly, Starred ReviewIn this new biography, distinguished hi...

This chapter examines four works in which Gregory defends himself against charges of heterodoxy in his Trinitarian teaching: the confessions of faith known as Epistles 5 and 24, as...

This chapter argues that Gregory’s principal claim in his treatise To Ablabius—On Not Saying ‘Three Gods’ (one of the most widely cited works of patristic Trinitarian theology) is ...

Apollinarius of Laodicea argued that the divine wisdom, in Christ, took the place of a human reason, and so that the human Christ has existed eternally, as part of the Logos’s pers...

This chapter explores the relationship between vulnerability, or weakness, and self-determination in Gregory’s anthropology. In both On the Soul and the Resurrection and On the Mak...

In Speaking of Silence in Heidegger, Wanda Torres Gregory critically analyzes Heidegger’sthoughts on silence. Arguing that silence about silence is a guiding principle in his spars...