Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and the Transformation of Divine Simplicity. By Andrew Radde-Gallwitz
The problem of divine simplicity evidently was at the heart of the Eunomian controversy. Following his teacher Aetius, the bishop of Cyzicus argued that on account of his simplicity God could only be either ingenerate or generate. Given that he was the former, the Son, who evidently was the latter,...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 62, Issue: 1, Pages: 360-363 |
| Review of: | Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and the transformation of divine simplicity (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2009) (Zachhuber, Johannes)
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| Summary: | The problem of divine simplicity evidently was at the heart of the Eunomian controversy. Following his teacher Aetius, the bishop of Cyzicus argued that on account of his simplicity God could only be either ingenerate or generate. Given that he was the former, the Son, who evidently was the latter, could not be of the same or of a similar substance. Did the Cappadocians have a good answer to this straightforward and seemingly forceful argument? Considering the centrality of this issue for the final phase of the trinitarian debates in the fourth century, it is surprising how little scholarly effort has been devoted to its elucidation. The present study, a revised version of the author’s Ph.D. thesis originally written at Emory University, goes a long way to addressing this lacuna. |
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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/flq174 |