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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...

its own color, but knows both the red and the black and whatever else has produced the form through a sort of communion with something heterogeneous. He knows them as they were in the mixture of colors and as they are now when they have gone back to their nature, and as they will be again, if the colors should be mixed again with one another in like manner. In the same way we say that, even after their dissolution, the soul knows the individual nature of the elements which joined together in the
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