Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Second Series Volume V Gregory of NyssaPhilip Schaff |
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... Deity, Gregory gives no encouragement to this; he distinctly teaches that, though the soul is incomposite, it is not in the least independent of time and space, as the Deity is. In fact he almost entirely drops the old Platonic division ...
... Deity, Gregory gives no encouragement to this; he distinctly teaches that, though the soul is incomposite, it is not in the least independent of time and space, as the Deity is. In fact he almost entirely drops the old Platonic division ...
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... Deity. When, therefore, God has said that He will come in a particular way, if called in a particular way, this must be true. He is so called in Baptism; therefore He comes. (The vital importance of the doctrine of the Trinity, upon ...
... Deity. When, therefore, God has said that He will come in a particular way, if called in a particular way, this must be true. He is so called in Baptism; therefore He comes. (The vital importance of the doctrine of the Trinity, upon ...
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... Deity from being the author of evil, and so was a. ' the*odicee ; ' it entirely got rid of the two rival principles, good and evil, of the Gnostics ; and it avoided the seeming incongruity of what was to last for ever in the future ...
... Deity from being the author of evil, and so was a. ' the*odicee ; ' it entirely got rid of the two rival principles, good and evil, of the Gnostics ; and it avoided the seeming incongruity of what was to last for ever in the future ...
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... Deity as transcendent, incommunicable to creation per se. Souls cannot have the attributes of Deity. Created spirits cannot claim immediate kindred with the Aeyoc. So instead of the Platonic antithesis of the intelligible and sensible ...
... Deity as transcendent, incommunicable to creation per se. Souls cannot have the attributes of Deity. Created spirits cannot claim immediate kindred with the Aeyoc. So instead of the Platonic antithesis of the intelligible and sensible ...
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... Deity, considered as Deity, any numerical idea at all, and that to enumerate the Persons as " three " is a necessity, possibly, imposed upon us by language, but that no conception of number is really applicable to the Divine Nature or ...
... Deity, considered as Deity, any numerical idea at all, and that to enumerate the Persons as " three " is a necessity, possibly, imposed upon us by language, but that no conception of number is really applicable to the Divine Nature or ...
Contents
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Books TilIX Translation with Notes by Rev H A Wilson | 135 |
Books XXII Rev H C Ogles translation revised with Notes by Rev H | 220 |
On the Holy Spirit against Mscedonius A Fragment Translation with Notes | 326 |
On Not three Gods Translation with Notes by Rev H A Wilson 386 331 337 | 386 |
The Great Catechism | 471 |
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