Gregory of Nyssa : The Letters (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae)

CONTENTS......Page 10
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 14
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 20
The ascents of Gregory......Page 24
Early family life......Page 26
Young adulthood, 356–363......Page 30
Gregory chooses a secular career, 364......Page 35
Was Gregory married?......Page 38
Further soundings in ON VIRGINITY......Page 41
Gregory’s marriage: a scenario......Page 47
Goads and transitions, 365–372......Page 48
Early years as bishop, 371–378......Page 52
A problem of dating......Page 55
Gregory’s return from exile and rise in Church affairs, 378–381......Page 62
The zenith of Gregory’s public career, 381–386......Page 69
The final years: Gregory as mystical theologian, 387–394......Page 77
Gregory as a writer of letters......Page 82
Early sub-collections of letters......Page 83
Rhetoric and style in Gregory’s letters......Page 85
The personality revealed in the letters......Page 89
Manuscripts used for the Pasquali edition......Page 91
Dateline of the Letters......Page 93
PRELUDE 1: THE LETTERS OF BASIL......Page 96
Letter 14 TO HIS COMPANION GREGORY, excerpt3......Page 97
Letter 223 TO EUSTATHIUS OF SEBASTEIA, excerpt......Page 98
Letter 60 TO THE DIVINE GREGORY......Page 99
Letter 58 TO HIS BROTHER GREGORY......Page 100
Letter 98 TO EUSEBIUS, BISHOP OF SAMOSATA, excerpt......Page 102
Letter 100 TO EUSEBIUS, BISHOP OF SAMOSATA......Page 103
Letter 215 TO DOROTHEUS THE PRESBYTER2......Page 104
Letter 225 TO DEMOSTHENES, AS BY COMMON CONSENT, excerpt......Page 105
Letter 231 TO AMPHILOCHIUS BISHOP OF ICONIUM excerpt......Page 108
Letter 237 To Eusebius bishop of Samosata, excerpt......Page 109
Letter 239 TO EUSEBIUS BISHOP OF SAMOSATA, excerpt......Page 111
PRELUDE 2: ST GREGORY NAZIANZEN......Page 112
Letter 11 To Gregory......Page 113
Letter 73 To the same......Page 116
Letter 74 To the same......Page 117
Letter 76 To Gregory of Nyssa......Page 118
Letter 81 To Gregory of Nyssa......Page 119
Letter 182 To Gregory......Page 120
Letter 197 To Gregory, consolatory......Page 121
SAINT GREGORY OF NYSSA: THE LETTERS......Page 126
Letter 1 To Bishop Flavian......Page 128
Letter 2 To Kensitor on pilgrimages......Page 138
Letter 3 To Eustathia and Ambrosia and Basilissa......Page 146
Letter 4 To Eusebius......Page 155
Letter 5 To those who discredit his orthodoxy......Page 158
Letter 6 To Bishop Ablabius......Page 163
Letter 7 To Hierius the governor......Page 165
Letter 8 To Antiochanus......Page 167
Letter 9 To Stagirius......Page 168
Letter 10 To Otreius Bishop of Melitene......Page 169
Letter 11 To Eupatrius the scholasticus......Page 171
Letter 12 To the same......Page 173
Letter 13 To Libaniu......Page 175
Letter 14 To Libanius the sophist......Page 178
Letter 15 To John and Maximian......Page 181
Letter 16 To Strategius......Page 182
Letter 17 To the presbyters of Nicomedia......Page 184
Letter 18 To Otreius Bishop of Melitene......Page 192
Letter 19 To a certain John especially on Macrina......Page 195
Letter 20 To Adelphius the scholasticus......Page 204
Letter 21 To Ablabius the bishop......Page 210
Letter 23 Without title, on Phaedimus......Page 212
Letter 24 To Heracleianus the heretic......Page 213
Letter 25 To Amphilochius......Page 219
Letter 26 From the sophist Stagirius to Gregory......Page 225
Letter 27 Reply of holy Gregory to the sophist......Page 226
Letter 28 [on the rose and its thorns]......Page 227
Letter 29 To his brother Peter on the CONTRA EUNOMIUM......Page 229
Letter 30 Reply of Peter to Gregory......Page 231
Letter 31 To Letoius bishop of Melitene......Page 234
Letter 32 To the monk Philip......Page 248
Letter 33 To Eustathius the physician......Page 255
Letter 34 To Xenodorus the grammaticus......Page 268
Letter 35 TO PETER HIS OWN BROTHER ON THE DIVINE OUSIA AND HYPOSTASIS......Page 270
Letter 36 To Theodore......Page 283
Letter 37 To the great Emperor......Page 286
Sources......Page 294
Studies......Page 295
GENERAL INDEX......Page 300