... of California 2024 free will fate determinism Bardaisan of Edessa Origen of Alexandria Alexander of Aphrodisias Gregory of Nyssa This investigation focuses on late antique defenses of free will against determinism, from Bardaisan of Edessa (d. 222) to Clement and Origen of Alexandria...

... the swirl of late ancient colors to show how early Christians found God in the color blue. color aesthetics sapphire perception Plotinus Alexander of Aphrodisias Dionysius the Areopagite Gregory of Nyssa Evagrius of Pontus mysticism blue © 2022 by The Regents of the University...

... late ancient orators: the fourth-century Syriac homilist Cyrillona; his Greek contemporary Gregory of Nyssa; and the sixth-century bishop of Antioch, Severus. Successful disaster mythologies are not always compatible with one another, nor necessarily internally consistent. A myth-maker—a religious...

...John David Penniman Humankind, for Gregory of Nyssa, was poisoned through a primordial act of eating the forbidden fruit from the Garden of Eden. As a result, the toxin of sin and death has been blended into the body and soul of each person, dispersing itself throughout the component parts...