Gregory of Nyssa as Biographer: Weaving Lives for Virtuous Readers

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Mohr Siebeck, 17 במאי 2021 - 303 עמודים
In this study, Allison L. Gray analyzes three biographical narratives by the fourth-century Christian theologian Gregory of Nyssa (335-395 CE). When the Life of Moses , the Life of Macrina , and the Life of Gregory Thaumaturgus are examined in light of Greco-Roman rhetoric, biography, hagiography, and the history of education, it becomes evident that Gregory's attention to audience is critical to understanding the texts' form and function. Gregory recounts the lives of exemplary figures to inform his readers about lived virtue while simultaneously preparing them to be skilled readers and interpreters. He adopts and adapts familiar rhetorical and literary techniques to imagine, construct, and teach a new sort of ideal audience, training Christians to interpret Scripture. This study contributes to a more complete picture of how early Christian biographical writing shaped an emerging Christian paideia
 

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The Woven Garment
1
Three Narrated Lives
9
Gregorys Stated Purpose and the Reader
24
Plan of the Book
32
Introductions in the Bioi
38
Conclusion
51
Exemplar and Reader The Genos of an Interpreter
54
Conclusion
68
Imagining Frogs VM II 6872
174
Conclusion
180
Last Words
196
B Moses and the Next Life
205
Macrinas Holy Body
214
Conclusion
227
Concluding a Bios
234
Weaving Lives for Virtuous
240

Upbringing in the Bioi
77
Conclusion
90
Moses VM I 1719 and VM II 618 B Advancing by Way of Retreat
111
The Fourthcentury Audience and Paideia
118
Seeing Praxeis Seeing Virtue
124
Conclusion
150
Vision and Imaginative Participation
168

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