Gregory of Nyssa, Part One
A conversation
This is the first of three conversations with Tony Golsby-Smith on Gregory of Nyssa. This installment of the series ranges over a number of topics, but is centered on the treatise “On the Making of Humanity.” The second installment has been completed and will appear online anon. The third will be recorded later this week. Tony’s intelligence and unerring sense of which questions are most interesting, I have to admit, reminded me of why I find Gregory so endlessly fascinating.
I very much enjoyed this conversation when it appeared, and am happy to hear that Part II will be forthcoming. Am I right in remembering that it is to revolve around De Anima et Resurrectione?
Dense discussion with subtleties. The modern tendency is to incorporate everything into sciences in order to synthesize all existing and precedented concepts to make sense for modern minds. From the Cartesian mechanical orders of the corporeality in the world to quantum physics, backward toward the Creation as One, depicted and interpreted or analyzed later as Substance from which derivative predicates unfold. Sheer understanding and thick ignorance of mine are making me say these things.
The treatise of Gregory of Nyssa is transparently and beautifully introduced in the conversation. Structural categorizations (ex: divisions of theologies) are on the other hand from a scientific practice.
Internal mind cinema makings to be a psychic drama for individualization of outer realities may have the same origine, but in very wrought and artificially elaborated ways
I used to think (and maybe wrote) St. Augustin pointed out the First Utterance from which God's narratives are unfolding as the former is Eternity, the latter is time. The fulfillment, salvation, back onto Eternity, a mere subscriber like me can say anything.
Just one more. Without all sublime and subtle aspects of Gregory of Nyssa, that humanity was created as a community to be one body, mirroring Divine image on its reflection would be utilized or even abused by institutional or political agenda of today on their operational level for the realization of a socialism.