Useful and Beautiful: A Reading of Gregory of Nyssa’s On Virginity and a Proposal for Understanding Early Christian Literature
The idea that Gregory of Nyssa’s work On Virginity was a piece of advocacy for Basil the Great’s ascetic programme has recently been challenged from various perspectives. Here I examine Gregory’s creation of a particular authorial voice through his manipulation of certain stock themes from classical...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2014
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Irish theological quarterly
Year: 2014, Volume: 79, Issue: 3, Pages: 219-240 |
| Further subjects: | B
Gregory of Nyssa
B Epithalamium B Poetics B Rhetoric B Virginity B Marriage |
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