Contents
Table of Contents
Works on Analytical Criticism, History, and Bibliography, Consulted.
Dates of Treatises, &c., Here Translated.
A Sketch of the Life of S. Gregory of Nyssa.
His General Character as a Theologian.
Gregory to his brother Peter, Bishop of Sebasteia.
To his most pious brother Gregory. Peter greeting in the Lord.
Preface.--It is useless to attempt to benefit those who will not accept help.
Eunomius displays much folly and fine writing, but very little seriousness about vital points.
Eunomius himself proves that the confession of faith which He made was not impeached.
All his insulting epithets are shewn by facts to be false.
Résumé of his dogmatic teaching. Objections to it in detail.
His acknowledgment that the Divine Being is 'single' is only verbal.
The blasphemy of these heretics is worse than the Jewish unbelief.
These doctrines of our Faith witnessed to and confirmed by Scripture passages.
He vainly thinks that the doubt about the energies is to be solved by the beings, and reversely.
The Passage where he attacks the ῾Ομοούσιον, and the contention in answer to it.
Proof that the Anomœan teaching tends to Manichæism.
A passing repetition of the teaching of the Church.
Several ways of controverting his quibbling syllogisms.
Answer to the question he is always asking, “Can He who is be begotten?”
His unsuccessful attempt to be consistent with his own statements after Basil has confuted him.
The thing that follows is not the same as the thing that it follows.
Answer to Eunomius' Second Book.
Note on the Treatise “On the Making of Man.”
Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, to his brother Peter, the servant of God.
Why man appeared last, after the creation.
That the nature of man is more precious than all the visible creation.
That the construction of man throughout signifies his ruling power.
That man is a likeness of the Divine sovereignty.
Why man is destitute of natural weapons and covering.
That the form of man was framed to serve as an instrument for the use of reason.
That the mind works by means of the senses.
That the nature of mind is invisible.
A Rationale of sleep, of yawning, and of dreams.
That our irrational passions have their rise from kindred with irrational nature.
What was the life in Paradise, and what was the forbidden tree?
An argument against those who say that matter is co-eternal with God.
That the resurrection is not beyond probability.
A brief examination of the construction of our bodies from a medical point of view.