Gregory of Nyssa

Quem de fato foi S. Gregório de Nissa? Um bispo? Um teólogo? Um pensador? Um místico? Um exegeta? As numerosas obras, importantes e originais, de caráter polêmico, expositivo, doutrinal e exegético, confirmam a figura poliédrica de S. Gregório de Nissa. Ele soube sintetizar harmonicamente a visão do homem propriamente bíblica com os elementos mais interessantes do pensamento de algumas das figuras mais importantes da cultura filosófica precedente, tais como Platão, Aristóteles, show more Posidônio, Galeno e Orígenes. Neste volume, pela primeira vez em tradução brasileira, o leitor tem acesso a três das mais significativas obras do grande capadócio, a saber: A criação do homem, A alma e a ressurreição e A grande catequese. Trata-se, sem dúvida, de mais um sucesso da coleção Patrística. show less

Brilliant exercise in spiritual allegory, as Gregory of Nyssa reads the life of Moses as a typological archetype for the virtuous life.

Nothing particularly insightful. St. Gregory of Nyssia writes a short biographical letter to his friend of the life of his sister St. Macrina. Most of what Mr. Corrigan wrote in the introduction is repeated in the tale. Her own tumor was healed by her mother when she did as was requested and the eye infection of an infant was healed after spending dinner with St. Macrina. It was somewhat unusual that after her husband died at a young age, she spent the rest of her mother's days never ought show more of her site. Nearly as much is written of her funeral as of her life. show less

Selected letters among the "three hierarchs" of the Orthodox tradition, chosen more to give layfolk an impression of theirbnlives and times than to fully express their theology; some are religious and others are minor pieces on details of their secular lives