Exploring Gregory of Nyssa: Philosophical, Theological, and Historical Studies
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 1328
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198826422
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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0
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This volume is an interdisciplinary collaboration, edited by a historian (McLynn) and a philosopher (Marmodoro); the contributions cover aspects of Gregory's historical context, philosophical arguments and theological contributions, and are mostly grouped so as to allow the reader to compare different approaches to the same material: thus the groups of essays on the Letter to Ablabius (Marmodoro and Radde-Gallwitz), on the influence of Origen (Edwards, Beeley and Ramelli) and on pneumatology (Ramelli again, Ludlow and Zachhuber). Recent scholarship on Gregory, although very lively, has compartmentalized these different debates, with the result that each separate discussion has tended to include outdated assumptions about other aspects of his career and thought. McLynn's paper on the correspondence with Gregory Nazianzen is paired with John McGuckin's synthetic vision of a 'refined and wealthy intellectual' thrust reluctantly 'into the rough stream of history': McLynn points out how much this picture depends upon a particular arrangement of the letters from Nazianzen, several of which are susceptible to a different dating, and also argues for a more combative interpretation of these documents, which has the two friends as competitors as well as allies, and Nyssen as a more active agent in the Cappadocian politics of the 360s and 370s than has been realized. Editorial work for the volume was equally shared, guided by the conviction that the historical parts would benefit from the critical curiosity of a philosopher, and vice versa.
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