Acknowledgements xi // Abbreviations xii // Introduction 1 // 1. Scope and purpose of the study 1 // 2. Universal human nature in previous research 4 // 3. The problem of Gregory’s development 7 // 4. Gregory’s knowledge of philosophical sources 8 // 5. Human nature and related expression—a note on terminology 13 // I. HUMAN NATURE IN TRINITARIAN DOCTRINE 15 // Introduction 17 // 1. Homoousios and the Analogy of Human Nature in the // 350s and Early 360s 21 // 1.1. A controversial starting point and its presuppositions 21 // 1.2. The homoiousian rejection of the homoousion 24 // 1.2.1. Homoousios in the Ancyran synodical letter (358) 25 // 1.2.2. The Sirmian Epistle 28 // 1.3. The witness of Athanasius 31 // 1.4. Apollinarius’ answer to Basil 35 // 1.4.1. Philosophical background 37 // 1.4.2. Apollinarius’ application of human nature 39 // 1.5. Confession of the homoousion by Meletius and his followers at Antioch in 363 40 // 2. The Cappadocian Teaching 43 // 2.1. The teaching of Eunomius 44 // 2.2. The Cappadocian reaction 49 // Excursus: Was Basil ever a homoiousian? 50 // 2.2.1. The Cappadocian application of human nature 55 // 2.2.2. The Antiochene background 57 // 2.3. The writing On the Difference of ousia and hupostasis 61 // 2.3.1. A semantic theory 63 // 2.3.2. The ousia-hupostasis distinction 70 // 2.3.3. Philosophical background 79 // 2.4. Gregory of Nyssa’s anti-Eunomian polemics 93 // 2.4.1. Contra Eunomium I 172-86: ‘Eunomius does not even know the Categories’ 94 // 2.4.2. Contra Eunomium III/1,73-6 and the rejection of the derivative model 98 // 2.4.3. Contra Eunomium III/5 and the relation between Basil’s and Gregory’s conception of // substantial unity 101 // 2.5. Gregory’s defence against the charge of tritheism 105 // 2.5.1. The Ad Graecos 108 // 2.5.2. The Ad Ablabium 113 //
2.5.3. The alleged tritheism of Gregory of Nyssa 118 // II. HUMAN NATURE IN THE DIVINE ECONOMY 123 // 3. Human Nature and the Theological Requirements of Salvation History 125 // 3.1. Preliminary considerations 125 // 3.2. The teaching of Apollinarius 130 // 4. Gregory’s Teaching on Creation and Fall of Humanity 145 // 4.1. The creation of human nature 145 // 4.1.1. The creation of the world 148 // 4.1.2. The creation of man 154 // 4.1.3. Further Considerations: De Hominis Opificio 16 and the problem of double creation 163 // 4.2. A Fall of human nature? 174 // 4.2.1. The Neoplatonic pattern 176 // 4.2.2. The Origenist pattern 178 // 4.2.3. The Apollinarian pattern 182 // 5. Human Nature in Gregory’s Soteriology and Eschatology 187 // 5.1. The ‘humanistic’ solution: salvation through imitation of Christ 190 // 5.2. The eschatological restoration of humankind 200 // 5.3. Gregory’s use of soteriological theories based on universal human nature 204 // 5.3.1. Physical soteriology and universalism in the // writing Tunc et ipse 207 // 5.3.2. Soteriology and christology in the Eunomian controversy 212 // 5.3.3. Human nature in Gregory’s anti-Apollinarian // Antirrheticus 218 // 5.3.3.1. Gregory’s Third Epistle and its historical setting 218 // 5.3.3.2. The position of the Antirrheticus 220 // 5.3.4. The re-emergence of universal human nature in the Refutatio Confessionis Eunomii 225 // 5.3.5. The universality of salvation in the Catechetical // Oration 228 // Conclusion 238 // Bibliography 246 // 1. Ancient authors 246 // 2. Modern authors 249 // Index of Biblical References 257 // Index of Ancient Authors 259 // Index of Modern Authors 266 // General Index 268