Gregory of Nyssa and the Grasp of Faith : Union, Knowledge, and Divine Presence.

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Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Faith, the Christian Foundation -- Faith in late Neoplatonism: Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Proclus -- 1 The Exaltation of Faith: The State of Current Research -- Faith in Gregory of Nyssa: the Critical Heritage -- New Directions -- 2 The Flow of the Mind -- Introduction -- The Mind and Passions -- The Mind and the Intelligible World -- The Mind�s Ascent -- The Mind and Grace -- The Presence of God -- Conclusion -- 3 The Grasp of Faith -- Introduction -- In Inscriptiones Psalmorum

Contra Eunomium IContra Eunomium II -- De vita Moysis -- Commentarius in Canticum canticorum -- Conclusion -- 4 The Grasp of Faith and Supranoetic Union -- Introduction -- Celsus -- The Chaldaean Oracles -- Plotinus -- Parallels between Plotinus and Gregory of Nyssa -- Conclusion -- 5 Fountain of Presence, Breasts of Wine: The Flow of Knowledge in the In Canticum canticorum -- Introduction -- The Gold of Knowledge -- The Flow of Water -- A Schema of the Flow of Knowledge -- Conclusion

6 Christ Speaking Himself: The Logophatic Discourse of Paul and the BrideIntroduction -- Paul and Logophasis -- The Bride and the Daughters of Jerusalem -- Conclusion -- 7 The Luminous Dark Revisited -- Introduction -- Preliminary Considerations -- From Light to Increasing Darkness -- Light unto Light -- Light Communing in Light -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W

Scholars of Gregory of Nyssa have long acknowledged the centrality of faith in his theory of divine union. This study elucidates important auxiliary themes that accrue to Gregory's notion of faith as a faculty of apophatic union with God.

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