The Power of God: Δύναμις in Gregory of Nyssa's Trinitarian Theology PDF
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The Power of God ´ The Power of God Du´nami" in Gregory of Nyssa’s Trinitarian Theology TheCatholicUniversityofAmericaPress Washington,D.C. Copyright(cid:1) TheCatholicUniversityofAmericaPress Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica ThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmeri- canNationalStandardsforInformationScience—PermanenceofPaperfor PrintedLibrarymaterials,.-. ∞ LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Barnes,MichelR. ThepowerofGod:Du´nami"inGregoryofNyssa’sTrinitariantheology/ MichelRene´Barnes. p.cm. Arevisionoftheauthor’sthesis(Ph.D.)—UniversityofSt.Michael’s College. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. .Trinity—Historyofdoctrines—Earlychurch,ca.–. .Power (Christiantheology)—Historyofdoctrines—Earlychurch,ca.–. .Dynamis(TheGreekword) .Gregory,ofNyssa,Saint,ca.–ca.— ContributionsindoctrineoftheTrinity. .Title. .B (cid:1).(cid:1)—dc - ---(alk.paper) ForCCCandDeeDee sanzadeliocchiaverpiu` conoscenza, peroccultavirtu` chedaleimosse, d’anticoamorsent`ılagranpotenza. Dante,Purgatorio Contents PrefaceandAcknowledgments ix ListofAbbreviations xii Chronologies xiii Introduction . TheOriginsandSignificanceofDu´nami" inPreplatonicPhilosophy . TheRoleofDu´nami"inPlato’sPhilosophy . Du´nami"asaTheologicalTermamongPagans andChristiansintheEarlyCommonEra . DoctrinesofPowerintheNiceneand Pro-NiceneControversies . Eunomius’TheologyoftheTrinity . ThePro-NiceneDoctrineofDivineProductivity . GregoryofNyssaontheUnityofNatureandPower Bibliography Indices Preface and Acknowledgments yet fragile about having one’sfirstbook published.Aworkof intenseintimacyisturned outonto the public world where strangers pass judgment. Happily, the passage of thewritingfromprivatetopublicisalsoanopportunityfordebtstobeac- knowledged, which begins the act of repayment, an act that can never be completed. The book before you is a revised version of the doctoral dis- sertation I wrote at the University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto, co- directedby(alphabetically)JoanneMcWilliamandJohnRist.Thedisserta- tioncontainedmaterialfrommyTh.M.thesis,directedbyJohnEgan,S.J. My debt to these generous scholars and teachers has to be acknowledged immediately,sincetheireffortsmadethismomentpossible.Forthesecond phaseofthiswriting,namelythebookform,IamgratefultoTheCatholic University of America Press, David McGonagle, Susan Needham, and my anonymousreviewers. Ihavehadthebenefitofagoodeducation.Probablythemostdecisive eventinmyadultlifewasmyfouryearsatSt.John’sCollege,SantaFe,New Mexico (sister to the older campus in Annapolis, Maryland). Fr. Michael Ossorgin, now passed on, introduced me to “the Greeks”—from Homer toAristotle.Itwasagentlebutdeeplyenthusiasticintroduction.Thesame gentlenesswas therewhenFr. Michaelintroducedsome ofusto thetrea- sures of the Orthodox tradition (a completely different set of “Greeks”) and brought our souls back home (even if, as in my case, home was the Catholic Church). But some vision is not gentle: Dennis Higgins taught
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