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Author Ludlow, Morwenna.

Title Gregory of Nyssa : ancient and (post)modern / Morwenna Ludlow
Published Oxford ; New York : University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 314 pages)
Series Oxford scholarship online
Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online. Religion module
Contents Introduction: The Elusive Gregory; PART I. THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY; PART II. GOD BECAME HUMAN FOR OUR SALVATION; PART III. SEX, GENDER, AND EMBODIMENT; PART IV. THEOLOGY; Select Bibliography; Index
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 analyses 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 ofrecent Trinitarian theology, Christology, spirituality, feminism, and postmodern hermeneutics, Ludlow develops an
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-305) and index
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Subject Gregory, of Nyssa, Saint, approximately 335-approximately 394.
SUBJECT Gregory, of Nyssa, Saint, approximately 335-approximately 394 fast
Subject RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Systematic.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191535789
0191535788
9780191712906
0191712906