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In the fourth century, the Christian church emerged from the catacombs as a spiritual and intellectual force, and many believers struggled to explain their faith within prevailing philosophical systems. Among them was St. Gregory, bishop of Nyssa, who examined the doctrine of the bodily resurrection. Following Plato’s literary example, St. Gregory wrote a dramatic dialogue regarding the soul and...

words, so that those who have not adequately investigated the mystery of truth are likely to be affected by your speech and to suppose that you have validly raised a further difficulty in regard to what we have said. But this is not the truth,” she said, “even if I am not able to orate against your speech in the same style. The truth about this is stored up in the hidden treasury of wisdom and will be disclosed at the time when we are taught the mystery of the resurrection in deed, when we will no
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