Gregory of Nyssa: "Contra Eunomium I" : an English translation with supporting studies

653 Pages·2018·2.712 MB·English

by  Miguel Brugarolas Brufau

GregoryofNyssa:ContraEunomiumI
Supplements
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Vigiliae Christianae
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D.T.Runia
G.Rouwhorst
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volume 148
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Gregory of Nyssa:
Contra Eunomium I
AnEnglishTranslationwithSupportingStudies
Editedby
MiguelBrugarolas
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Contents
Preface ix
ListofContributors xii
Part 1
Introduction
DergeschichtlicheHintergrunddeserstenBuchesContraEunomium
GregorsvonNyssa 3
BasilStuder
L’influenced’AècesurEunomeest-ellerepérabledansleContreEunomeI
deGrégoiredeNysse? 40
RaymondWinling
GregoryofNyssa’sLetters29and30andtheContraEunomium 52
AnnaM.Silvas
Part 2
Translation
IntroductiontotheTranslation 61
StuartGeorgeHall
GregoryofNyssa:ContraEunomiumI 73
TranslatedbyStuartGeorgeHall
Part 3
SupportingStudies
DasVokabulardesEunomiosimKontextGregors 199
FriedhelmMann
L’aspectcosmologiquedelaphilosophied’Eunomepourlaréprisede
l’HexaemeronbasilienparGrégoiredeNysse 223
MichelvanEsbroeck
vi contents
TheurgicNeo-PlatonismandtheEunomius-GregoryDebate:An
ExaminationoftheBackground 240
PaulosMarGregorios
SofísticayverdadenelexordiodelContraEunomiumI 261
JoséLuisIllanes
DogmaticsandPoliticsinGregoryofNyssa:Monarchy,Democracy,
Kingship,Tyranny&AnarchyintheAgainstEunomius 270
ConstantineBozinis
NameundSein.ZudensprachphilosophischenGrundlageninderSchrift
ContraEunomiumdesGregorvonNyssa 295
TheoKobusch
DiebiblischeArgumentationGregorsvonNyssaimerstenBuchContra
Eunomium 319
HubertusR.Drobner
LogicandtheApplicationofNamestoGod 341
G.ChristopherStead
TheDivineSimplicity:ContraEunomiumI223–241 357
AnthonyMeredith
OnEnergeiainStGregoryofNyssa’sContraEunomiumI 371
TorsteinTheodorTollefsen
TheCreatedandtheUncreatedinGregoryofNyssa’sContraEunomium
I270–295(GNOI,105–113) 384
AldenA.Mosshammer
DivineAttributesandGod’sUnityintheContraEunomiumIofGregoryof
Nyssa 412
MiguelBrugarolas
TrinitarianTheologyinGregoryofNyssa’sContraEunomiumI:The
InterplaybetweenOntologyandScripture 441
GiulioMaspero
contents vii
GottVaternachdemerstenBuchgegenEunomiusdesGregorvon
Nyssa 494
LenkaKarfíková
Ladistinctionγεννητός/ἀγέννητοςdansleContraEunomiumI 523
XavierBatllo
TheσχέσιςoftheFatherandoftheSonintheContraEunomiumI 538
IlariaVigorelli
LapneumatologieduContraEunomiumI 557
EliasD.Moutsoulas
ChristologyandSoteriologyintheContraEunomiumI 569
LucasF.Mateo-Seco
FragmentsofGregoryofNyssa’sContraEunomiuminSyriac
Translation 593
MartienF.G.Parmentier
Indexlocorum 605
Indexnominum 633

Preface
InSeptemberof1986theUniversityofNavarra(Pamplona,Spain)heldtheVI
International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa. Organized by Professor Lucas
F.Mateo-Seco(†2014),theColloquiumbroughttogetheranumberof schol-
arstodelveintotheContraEunomiumI.Thepracticeof devotingeachcollo-
quium to particular works of Gregory of Nyssa was already well established.
Afterthetwofirstcolloquiawhichaddressedgeneralissues—Écritureetcul-
turephilosophiquedanslapenséedeGrégoiredeNysse(Chevetogne,1969)and
Gregor von Nyssa und die Philosophie (Münster, 1972)—, the following three
focusedonselectedwritings:Deinfantibuspraematureabreptis(Leiden,1974),
The Easter Sermons (Cambridge, 1978) and The Biographical Works (Mainz,
1982).TheColloquiumheldinPamplonawasthefirstcenteredononeofGre-
gory’s dogmatic works. It filled a bibliographical gap and, at the same time,
broughtaboutasignificantadvanceinthestudyofGregory’sthought,precisely
throughitsanalysisofhismostimportantpolemicalwork.AtthisColloquium
thefirstgenerationofexpertsonGregoryofNyssasetdownasolidpathupon
whichtheupcominggenerationswouldcontinue:in2004,the10thColloquium
inOlomoucinquiredintotheContraEunomiumIIand,laterin2010,the12th
ColloquiuminLeuvendiscussedtheContraEunomiumIII.
The proceedings from these three colloquia on the ContraEunomium fol-
lowedasimilarstructure:anEnglishtranslationofNyssa’stextbyProfessorStu-
artG.Hallwasincludedalongwithnumerousstudiescoveringawidearrange
of topicsfromdiverseperspectives.Forthisreason,inadditiontowhateach
individualvolumecontributestotheresearchinGregoryofNyssaasawhole,
the three volumes are of considerable scholarly significance, given that they
provideanunabridgedandunifiedtranslationoftheentireContraEunomium
accompaniedbyaselectionofcommentariesandstudies.Thesignificanceof
theseproceedingsisdoubtlessoneofthemainreasonsforpreparinganewedi-
tionoftheContraEunomiumI(Eunsa,1988)nowpublishedbyBrillaspartof
theSeries“SupplementstoVigiliaeChristianae,”whichalsoincludestheContra
EunomiumII(VCS82,Brill2007)andIII(VCS124,Brill2014).
Thisvolumehasatwofoldintention:First,itattemptstorendertheessential
partsoftheoriginalvolumeofContraEunomiumImoreaccessibletointerna-
tionalreaders.Tothisend,itincorporatesboththeEnglishtranslationofCon-
traEunomiumIandaselectionofthearticlespublishedinthefirsteditionthat
arestillrelevanttodayforthestudyofGregoryofNyssa.Indoingso,thisedition
givesanacknowledgementinmemoriamofarenownedgenerationofGregory
of Nyssascholars,suchasProfessorsL.F.Mateo-Seco,G.C.Stead,P.M.Grego-