Gregory of Nyssa
by Abraham Malherbe, Everett Ferguson, John Meyendorff · first published 1978
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…viewpoints. By "broken" I mean there were SO many facets of my life as a human that I could not account for materialistically without invoking magic words like "emergence". Reading the Life of Moses by St. Gregory of Nyssa is what really started helping me understand the traditional worldview, and thereby understand scripture as well. I would like to go to Mt Athos soon, but international travel is getting more and more…
on “Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?” ↗No need, I have read David Bentley Hart's sources: Gregory of Nyssa, Isaac the Syrian [1], Maximus the Confessor, Symeon the New Theologian, Gregory Palamas †. Great thinkers, the "fathers", they really did a bang-up job merging Judaism and Greek Neoplatonism. Can't say…
on “End-of-Life Dreams” ↗