Gregory of Nyssa: The Life of Moses

by Gregory of Nyssa

Publisher:

Paulist Press

, 1978

Overview

The Life of Moses has special significance because it reflects Gregory’s “spiritual sense” of the Scriptures. Gregory frames an immensely significant synthesis of the earlier Hellenistic and Jewish interpretive tradition in this work. He describes the spiritual ascent as taking place in three stages, symbolized by the Lord’s revelation of himself to Moses, first in light, then in the cloud and, finally, in the dark. Find new insight into the teachings of the ancient church with this translation.

Key Features

• A clear presentation of the writing and thinking of Gregory of Nyssa for a modern audience
• Fully integrates and cross references with other resources from your Logos library
• A primary source that is useful for research and historical study of the early church

Contents

Top Highlights

“For truly barren is profane education, which is always in labor but never gives birth.^{14” (Page 57)}

“For the perfection of human nature consists perhaps in its very growth in goodness.^{18” (Page 31)}

“We are in some manner our own parents, giving birth to ourselves by our own free choice in accordance with whatever we wish to be, whether male or female, moulding ourselves to the teaching of virtue or vice.” (Pages 55–56)

“Just as the end of life is the beginning of death, so also stopping in the race of virtue marks the beginning of the race of evil.” (Page 30)

“The work develops the theme that the virtuous life is a perpetual progress based on the infinite goodness of God.” (Page xvi)

Product Details

• Title: Gregory of Nyssa: The Life of Moses
• Author: Gregory of Nyssa
• Series: The Classics of Western Spirituality
• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Print Publication Date: 1978
• Logos Release Date: 2016
• Pages: 224
• Era: era:nicene
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Moses (Biblical leader)
• ISBNs: 0809121123, 9780809121120
• Resource ID: LLS:GRGRYNYSSLFMSS
• Resource Type: text.monograph.ancient-manuscript.translation
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-12-19T23:52:02Z

About Gregory of Nyssa

St. Gregory of Nyssa (c 335 – after 394) was a Christian bishop and saint. He was a younger brother of Basil the Great and a good friend of Gregory of Nazianzus. His significance has long been recognized in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Eastern Catholic and Roman Catholic branches of Christianity. Some historians identify Theosebia the deaconess as his wife, others hold that she, like Macrina the Younger, was actually a sister of Gregory and Basil.