Deepertruth: Stand In The Gap With Us And saint Gregory of Nyssa

Stand In The Gap With Us And saint Gregory of Nyssa 1/10/2024

Gregory was born around 335, His family was aristocratic and Christian his mother was Emmelia of Caesarea, and his father, a rhetorician, has been identified either as Basil the Elder or as a Gregory. Among his eight siblings were St. Macrina  the Younger, St. Naucratius, St. Peter of Sebaste and St. Basil of Caesarea

Gregory's parents had suffered persecution for their faith: he writes that they "had their goods confiscated for confessing Christ."

Gregory participated in the First Council of Constaantinople (381), Gregory, following Basil, defined the Trinity as "one essence in three persons ", the formula adopted by the Council of Constantinople in 381.

was Bishop of Nyssa in Cappadocia from 372 to 376 and from 378 until his death in 395.

philosophical theologian and mystic, leader of the orthodox party in the 4th-century Christian controversies over the doctrine of the Trinity. Primarily a scholar, he wrote many theological, mystical, and monastic works in which he balanced Platonic and Christian traditions.

Gregory was among the early Christian voices to write against slavery, declaring the institution inherently sinful.

The fundamental fact about human nature according to Gregory of Nyssa is that humans were created in the image of God. This means that because in God a transcendent nature exists which projects energies out into the world, we would expect the same structural relation to exist among human beings vis-a-vis their bodies.

The son of two saints, Basil and Emmilia, young Gregory was raised by his older brother, Saint Basil the Great, and his sister, Macrina, in modern-day Turkey.