Gregory of Nyssa’s Change of Mind about the Heart
In this essay I investigate Gregory of Nyssa’s view of the human heart in three works: De hominis opificio, De beatitudinibus, and In Canticum canticorum. I show that Gregory’s view of the heart undergoes a significant development, and argue that this development is caused by his particular reading...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2017]
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 68, Issue: 1, Pages: 121-140 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Gregory of Nyssa 335-394
/ Human being
/ Heart
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NBE Anthropology |
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| Summary: | In this essay I investigate Gregory of Nyssa’s view of the human heart in three works: De hominis opificio, De beatitudinibus, and In Canticum canticorum. I show that Gregory’s view of the heart undergoes a significant development, and argue that this development is caused by his particular reading of the beatitude ‘Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God’. In essence, I show that Gregory shifts from a predominantly physical understanding of the heart as a bodily organ to a more spiritualized understanding of the heart as the means through which one comes into communion with God. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flw232 |