Cultivation as Immanent Critique: Horticultural Metaphors in Gregory of Nyssa’s Reception of Origen and Basil

The present article asks after Gregory of Nyssa’s debts to Basil the Great, and this by re-examining two texts the former wrote shortly after the latter’s death: De hominis opificio and Apologia in Hexaemeron . It does so on the premise, mostly promissory for now, that Gregory’s efforts to sort thro...

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Main Author: Ross, Taylor (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter 2021
In: Open theology
Year: 2021, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 388-400
Further subjects:B Origen of Alexandria
B Gregory of Nyssa
B Early Christianity
B history of interpretation
B Basil of Caesarea
B Historical Theology
B Reception History
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