 | Anti-Apollinarian Writings Subjects: Jesus Christ -- History of doctrines -- Early church ca. 30–600; Gregory of Nyssa Saint approximately 335–approximately 394 -- Correspondence; Apollinaris Bishop of Laodicea –approximately 390 -- Correspondence; Theophilus patriarch Archbishop of; The translation is interweaved with a commentary to provide the reader with some guidance through the complexities of Gregory's arguments. The introduction includes an overview of the history of Apollinarianism and discusses the extent to which it is possible to reconstruct, from the fragments quoted by Gregory, the arguments of Apolinarius's Apodeixis to which he is responding. It also examines the background to and the chronology of both of Gregory's anti-Apollinarian works, and looks critically at the arguments that they deploy. |
