Time and Sacramentality in Gregory of Nyssa’s Contra Eunomium. By Alexander L. Abecina
Abecina aims to identify what view of time emerges from Gregory’s dispute with Eunomius in defence of Nicene orthodoxy. His chief conclusion is that time functions in the whole created sphere, visible and invisible, sensible and intellectual, and functions sacramentally. This means that time, often...
| Published in: | The journal of theological studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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The journal of theological studies
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| Summary: | Abecina aims to identify what view of time emerges from Gregory’s dispute with Eunomius in defence of Nicene orthodoxy. His chief conclusion is that time functions in the whole created sphere, visible and invisible, sensible and intellectual, and functions sacramentally. This means that time, often referred to in terms of diastema, both puts the timeless God beyond reach and provides the only way we may know him. Time, like the sacraments of the church, both veils and reveals the mystery. The distinction between created and uncreated is for Gregory always prior to that of sensible and intellectual (with criticism of A. A. Mosshammer), since even the eternity of created spirits functions in time, where progress in the knowledge of God takes place (epectasis). |
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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/flu021 |