A SELECT LIBRARY
OF THE
NICENE AND
POST-NICENE FATHERS
OF
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Second Series
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH WITH PROLEGOMENA AND EXPLANATORY NOTES
UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF
PHILIP SCHAFF, D.D., LL.D., | AND | HENRY WACE, D.D., |
Professor of Church History in the Union Theological Seminary, New York. |
| Principal of King’s College, London. |
IN CONNECTION WITH A NUMBER OF PATRISTIC SCHOLARS OF EUROPE AND AMERICA.
LOGOS CATHOLIC EDITION
Containing Only the Words of the Fathers
and Translator’s Notes
VOLUME V
GREGORY OF NYSSA:
DOGMATIC TREATISES, ETC.
NEW YORK:
THE CHRISTIAN LITERATURE COMPANY
1893
THE CHRISTIAN LITERATURE COMPANY
Volume V
Gregory of Nyssa Against Eunomius
Answer to Eunomius’ Second Book
On the Holy Spirit, Against the Followers of Macedonius
On the Holy Trinity, and of the Godhead of the Holy Spirit
On the Soul and the Resurrection
Select Writings and Letters of Gregory
of
Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa,
translated, with prolegomena, notes, and indices,
by
WILLIAM MOORE, M.A.,
Rector of Appleton,
Late Fellow of Magoalen College, Oxford;
and
Henry Austin Wilson, M.a.,
Fellow and Librarian of Magoalen College, Oxford.
Gregory of Nyssa Against Eunomius
Gregory to his brother Peter, Bishop of Sebasteia.
Having with difficulty obtained a little leisure, I have been able to recover from bodily fatigue on my return from Armenia, and to collect the sheets of my reply to Eunomius which was suggested by your wise advice; so that my work is now arranged in a complete treatise, which can be read between covers. However, I have not written against both his pamphlets1; even the leisure for that was not granted; for the person who lent me the heretical volume most uncourteously sent for it again, and allowed me no time either to write it out or to study it. In the short space of seventeen days it was impossible to be prepared to answer both his attacks.
Owing to its somehow having become notorious that we had laboured to answer this blasphemous manifesto, many persons possessing some zeal for the Truth have importuned me about it: but I have thought it right to prefer you in your wisdom before them all, to advise me whether to consign this work to the public, or to take some other course. The reason why I hesitate is this. When our saintly Basil fell asleep, and I received the legacy of Eunomius’ controversy, when my heart ...
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About Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.5: Gregory of Nyssa: Dogmatic Treatises, etc. (Catholic Edition)Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Volume V: Gregory of Nyssa: Dogmatic Treatises, etc. The Early Church Fathers is one of the most important collections of historical, philosophical and theological writings available in English to the student of the Christian Church. These documents provide the most comprehensive witness to the development of Christianity and Christian thought during the period immediately following the Apostolic Era. The Catholic edition of Early Church Fathers does not include the introductions, prolegomenae, and various interpretive comments made by the protestant editors of the Edinburgh edition. However, it retains all of the footnotes found in the printed editions. Contents of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series V Gregory of Nyssa Against Eunomius Answer to Eunomius’ Second Book On the Holy Spirit, against the Followers of Macedonius On the Holy Trinity, and of the Godhead of the Holy Spirit On “Not Three Gods” On the Faith On Virginity On Infants’ Early Deaths On Pilgrimages On the Making of Man On the Soul and the Resurrection The Great Catechism Funeral Oration on Meletius On the Baptism of Christ Letters |
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