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Scholars of Gregory of Nyssa have long acknowledged the centrality of faith in his theory of divine union. To date, however, there has been no sustained examination of this key topic. The present study fills this gap and elucidates important auxiliary themes that accrue to Gregory's notion of faith as a faculty of apophatic union with God. The result adjusts how we understand the Cappadocian's apophaticism in general and his so-called mysticism of darkness in particular. After a general discussi

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Author

Martin S. Laird

Publisher

OUP Oxford

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199229154

Category

biography

Subjects

Religion, Christian, Memoir

Updated

2026-03-25