Gregory of Nyssa's Teaching on Sin in the Homilies on the Beatitudes
The Homilies on the Beatitudes are believed to be Gregory of Nyssa's earliest existing homilies, dating most probably from the Lenten season of 378. In them we can clearly see, although still at an early stage, his thoughts on the problem of evil in the world and its effects on human nature. Re...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Pubblicazioni Agostiniane
[2018]
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Augustinianum
Year: 2018, Volume: 58, Issue: 1, Pages: 87-102 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NBE Anthropology |
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| Summary: | The Homilies on the Beatitudes are believed to be Gregory of Nyssa's earliest existing homilies, dating most probably from the Lenten season of 378. In them we can clearly see, although still at an early stage, his thoughts on the problem of evil in the world and its effects on human nature. Reading the homilies from this angle, one can show his original ideas on the introduction of sin in human nature, on the state of the man enslaved by sin and on sin's effects on him. Gregory also gives some useful and practical suggestions as to how sin can be overcome. Even though in later homilies he goes more deeply into these themes, and sometimes his thought develops and points to different conclusions, it is here in this first set of homilies that we start to see his ideas on sin and redemption taking shape. |
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| ISSN: | 2162-6499 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Augustinianum
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/agstm20185814 |