Zitate von Gregor von Nyssa
Gregor von Nyssa
Geburtstag: 335
Todesdatum: 395
Andere Namen:San Gregorio di Nissa
Gregor von Nyssa, auch Gregorius oder Gregorios war ein christlicher Bischof, Heiliger und Kirchenlehrer. Er war ein jüngerer Bruder des Basilius von Caesarea und ein guter Freund Gregors von Nazianz. Diese drei werden als die kappadokischen Väter bezeichnet. Eine besonders hohe Wertschätzung genießen sie in der orthodoxen Kirche. Gregor wurde 372 Bischof von Nyssa. Er nahm am Ersten Konzil von Konstantinopel teil und verteidigte das Bekenntnis von Nicäa gegen die Arianer. Seine Gotteslehre stellt einen ersten Höhepunkt der Verschmelzung christlichen und platonischen Denkens dar. Gregor gilt als größter christlich-philosophischer Denker seiner Zeit. Er war zugleich einer der großen Mystiker.
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„I got me slaves and slave-girls.' For what price, tell me? What did you find in existence worth as much as this human nature? What price did you put on rationality? How many obols did you reckon the equivalent of the likeness of God? How many staters did you get for selling that being shaped by God? God said, Let us make man in our own image and likeness. If he is in the likeness of God, and rules the whole earth, and has been granted authority over everything on earth from God, who is his buyer, tell me? Who is his seller? To God alone belongs this power; or, rather, not even to God himself. For his gracious gifts, it says, are irrevocable. God would not therefore reduce the human race to slavery, since he himself, when we had been enslaved to sin, spontaneously recalled us to freedom. But if God does not enslave what is free, who is he that sets his own power above God's?“
— Gregory of Nyssa
Homilies on Ecclesiastes; Hall and Moriarty, trs., de Gruyter (New York, 1993) p. 74 https://books.google.com/books?id=BReXJwwE_D8C&pg=PA74&lpg=PA74.
„As virtue is a thing that has no master, that is, is free, everything that is free will be united with virtue.“
— Gregory of Nyssa
Dialogue on the Soul and the Resurrection, Patrologia Graeca 46.101-105
„[E]very concept that comes from some comprehensible image, by an approximate understanding and by guessing at the Divine nature, constitutes a idol of God and does not proclaim God.“
— Gregory of Nyssa
The life of Moses; translation, introd. and notes by Abraham J. Malherbe and Everett Ferguson ; pref. by John Meyendorff Page 96 (1978 ed).