Bishop of Nyssa · c. 335 – c. 395

Gregory of Nyssa

Bishop of Nyssa and younger brother of Basil. A philosophical theologian who wrote on the Trinity, the soul and the Christian life.

Writings

1. Letter

   On “Not Three Gods”

   A short letter to Ablabius on how the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are one God.

   24 min read · translated by H.A. Wilson

2. Dialogue

   On the Soul and the Resurrection

   A dialogue with his sister Macrina, as she lay dying, on the soul, death and the resurrection.

   138 min read · translated by William Moore and Henry Austin Wilson

3. Treatise

   On the Making of Man

   Gregory’s companion to Basil’s Hexaemeron (379): man made in the image of God, the soul and the body, the passions, and the resurrection.

   158 min read · translated by H.A. Wilson

4. Treatise · 2 parts

   Against Eunomius, Part 1

   Against Eunomius, by Gregory of Nyssa: part 1 of 3 (Against Eunomius: Book I to Against Eunomius: Book II).

   385 min read · translated by William Moore and Henry Austin Wilson

5. Treatise · 9 parts

   Against Eunomius, Part 2

   Against Eunomius, by Gregory of Nyssa: part 2 of 3 (Against Eunomius: Book III to Against Eunomius: Book XI).

   396 min read · translated by H.A. Wilson

6. Treatise

   Against Eunomius, Part 3

   Against Eunomius, by Gregory of Nyssa: part 3 of 3 (Against Eunomius: Book XII to Against Eunomius: Book XII).

   31 min read · translated by H.C. Ogle and H.A. Wilson

7. Treatise

   Answer to Eunomius' Second Book

   Treatise by Gregory of Nyssa.

   263 min read · translated by M. Day

8. Treatise

   On the Holy Spirit (Against the Followers of Macedonius)

   Treatise by Gregory of Nyssa.

   41 min read · translated by William Moore and Henry Austin Wilson

9. Treatise

   On the Holy Trinity, and of the Godhead of the Holy Spirit (To Eustathius)

   Treatise by Gregory of Nyssa.

   16 min read · translated by H.A. Wilson

10. Treatise

    On Virginity

    Treatise by Gregory of Nyssa.

    107 min read · translated by William Moore and Henry Austin Wilson

11. Treatise

    On Infants' Early Deaths

    Treatise by Gregory of Nyssa.

    37 min read · translated by William Moore and Henry Austin Wilson

12. Collection · 22 parts

    Other Writings

    Letters, homilies, sermons, commentaries, fragments and shorter pieces by Gregory of Nyssa that are not published as books, in the order of the New Advent collection.

    134 min read · translated by H.C. Ogle

13. Treatise

    The Great Catechism

    Gregory's account of the Christian faith (c. 385) for teachers of the catechumens: God and the Word, creation and the fall, the incarnation and redemption, and baptism and the Eucharist, answering Jews and pagans.

    162 min read · translated by William Moore and Henry Austin Wilson

Portrait: drawn in the site’s engraved style from “Gregory of Nyssa”, public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

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