Word as Work: A Plotinian Natural Philosophy in Gregory of Nyssa’s Apologia in Hexaemeron
Abstract:Gregory of Nyssa’s theory of matter has been the object of a sustained debate since the beginning of modern patristic scholarship. Based on a passage in his Apologia in Hexaemeron, he has been assumed to defend the position, previously rejected by Origen and Plotinus, that matter is nothing but the coming-toge...