Gregory of Nyssa : ancient and (post)modern /
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 analyzes these recent readings of Gregory of Nyssa and as...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
University Press,
2007.
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| Summary: | 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 analyzes 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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| Physical Description: | x, 314 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-305) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199280766 0199280762 9780199677986 0199677980 |