WHY WAS ST GREGORY OF NYSSA NEVER CONDEMNED FOR HIS DOCTRINE OF APOKATASTASIS?
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Babeș-Bolyai University / Cluj University Press
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This article will first point out that St Gregory of Nyssa supported the doctrine of apokatastasis or universal restoration as grounded in Christ and in defence of Christian “orthodoxy” against Arian tendencies—as Origen, his great inspirer, had done against “Gnosticism”. In light of this, the reason why Gregory’s doctrine of apokatastasis was never condemned by the Church (differently from the case of Origen) will be asked, and several potential answers, which reinforce one another, will be offered. Finally, the essay will highlight the role of Gregory as a touchstone of orthodoxy.
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St Gregory of Nyssa, Origen, St Maximus the Confessor, Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople, Apokatastasis, Christocentrism, Orthodoxy, Purgatory, St Basil, St Naucratius, St Theosebia., or the works by Gregory of Nyssa, I used the Brill GNO series, Gregory Nysseni Opera, ed. Werner Jaeger et alii; for De anima et resurrectione and the scholia and glosses to it, I used the edition and commentary by I.L.E. Ramelli, Gregorio di Nissa Sull’Anima e la Resurrezione, Milan 2007. For Photius: Photii Bibliotheca, ed. I. Bekker, Berlin 1824-1825, and Bibliothèque, R. Henry, Paris 1959–1977.