Gregory of Nyssa, Ancient and (Post)modern. By Morwenna Ludlow.Clement of Alexandria: A Project of Christian Perfection. By Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski
Togetherthese studies of two significant and very different figures in early Christian thought and practice make a considerable contribution to the study of the early Christian Church in contemporary Christian thought. Though separated by centuries and vastly different in many ways, Clement of Alexa...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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Literature and theology
Year: 2009, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 236-237 |
| Review of: | Gregory of Nyssa (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007) (Jasper, David)
Gregory of Nyssa (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007) (Jasper, David) Gregory of Nyssa (Oxford : University Press, 2007) (Jasper, David) Gregory of Nyssa (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2007) (Jasper, David) |
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| Summary: | Togetherthese studies of two significant and very different figures in early Christian thought and practice make a considerable contribution to the study of the early Christian Church in contemporary Christian thought. Though separated by centuries and vastly different in many ways, Clement of Alexandria and the Cappadocian Gregory of Nyssa emerge separately as vibrant, vital figures, each with a complexity and practical astuteness that outstride their modern interpreters and expose their limitations and particularities even as they continue to provoke inventive theological exercises in fields such as ecclesiology, philosophy, gender studies and so on. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frp005 |