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Gregory of Nyssa’s Christian View of Language -The Problem of Divine Ineffability and Divine Name-

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2023, (41), pp.126~148
  • DOI : 10.33639/ptc.2023..41.006
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : December 20, 2022
  • Accepted : January 31, 2023
  • Published : January 31, 2023

Lim, Hyeongkwon 1

1서울대학교 인문학연구원

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ABSTRACT

The Christian thought of Gregory of Nyssa constitutes a watershed in the history of Christian mystical tradition. His Contra Eunomium is a good introduction for understanding his overall thought. Since his Christian mystical thought is shaped by his dialogue and confrontation with Eunomius’ Arian thought. Both thinkers were baptized by ancient Platonic idea. However, one is thoroughly influenced by Platonic ontology, the other by biblical worldview based on the radical difference between infinite Creator and finite creatures. Eunomius called the Father Unbegotten, the Son Begotten and at the same time held that these words express divine essence. On the contrary, Gregory of Nyssa opposes this idea, since the human word cannot grasp divine essence. This paper holds that the difference between these two thinkers originated from their different Platonic ontologies.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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