Gregory of Nyssa: In Canticum Canticorum, : Commentary and Supporting Studies. Proceedings of the 13th International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa (Rome, 17-20 September 2014).

• Superior document: Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; Volume 150
• Author: International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa Rome, Italy),; Giulio Maspero; Miguel Brugarolas; Ilaria Vigorelli (Editors)
• TeilnehmendeR: Maspero, Giulio,; Brugarolas, Miguel,; Vigorelli, Ilaria,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements 150.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 594 pages).

Taken together, Gregory of Nyssa’s XV Homilies In Canticum Canticorum are at the same time – as if in unison – a work of spiritual, exegetical, and theological doctrine. The wide spectrum of the themes present in them have prompted a great interest in this work, not only among scholars of patristics or theology, but also among those interested in biblical interpretation, ancient rhetoric or Christian mystical doctrine. These Proceedings present the results of the 13th International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa (Rome, 17-20 September 2014): a systematic commentary of Gregory’s In Canticum from a broad perspective in the form of sixteen papers and a selection of fourteen short essays devoted to various issues that represent a valuable set of supporting studies.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- List of Conference Participants -- Systematic Approach to the In Canticum -- The In Canticum in Gregory’s Theology: Introduction and Gliederung / Giulio Maspero -- Struttura, funzione e genere letterario delle Omelie sul Cantico dei Cantici / Claudio Moreschini -- D’ Origène à l’ édition de 1615 : sources et postérités des Homélies sur le Cantique de Grégoire de Nysse / Matthieu Cassin -- Gregor von Nyssa in der Vorgeschichte des byzantinischen Bilderstreites / Reinhart Staats -- Gregorio di Nissa interprete del Cantico dei Cantici / Manlio Simonetti -- The Exegesis of the Song of Songs: a New Type of Metaphysics / Theo Kobusch -- Dew on the Locks of the Beloved: the In Canticum Canticorum on Faith and Knowledge / Martin Laird -- Spuren von Trinitätstheologie in den Hoheliedhomilien Gregors von Nyssa / Volker Henning Drecoll -- The Incarnate Logos: Gregory of Nyssa’s In Canticum Canticorum Christological Core / Miguel Brugarolas -- From First Fruits to the Whole Lump: the Redemption of Human Nature in Gregory’s Commentary on the Song of Songs / Johannes Zachhuber -- Theology of Baptism in the In Canticum Canticorum of Gregory of Nyssa / Everett Ferguson -- The Metaphor of the Mirror in Platonic Tradition and Gregory’s Homilies on the Song of Songs / Lenka Karfíková -- The Rhetoric of Landscape in Gregory of Nyssa’s Homilies on the Song of Songs / Morwenna Ludlow -- Apokatastasis and Epektasis in Cant and Origen / Ilaria Ramelli -- Becoming Men, Not Stones: Epektasis in Gregory of Nyssa’s Homilies on the Song of Songs / J. Warren Smith -- Gregory of Nyssa on Spiritual Ascent and Trinitarian Orthodoxy: a Reconsideration of the Relation between Doctrine and Askesis / Sarah Coakley -- Supporting Studies -- Der Zugang zum Unzugänglichen und die radikale Begrenztheit eines Analogieschlusses von der Oikonomia auf die Theologia beim Hl. Gregor von Nyssa / Theodoros Alexopoulos -- “If You Do Not Know Yourself, Beautiful amongst Women …”: Human Greatness in Gregory of Nyssa and Its Influence on the Quattrocento / Francisco Bastitta Harriet -- “The Royal Bed”: Gregory of Nyssa’s Platonic Reading of the Song of Songs / Constantine Bozinis -- The Metapoetics of Μεταποίησις / Scot Douglass -- “Quel divino e puro amore dello sposo invisibile”: Gregorio di Nissa, la Vita di Macrina e le Omelie sul Cantico dei Cantici / Roberta Franchi -- Die Zunahme der Parrhesie in der Auslegung von Hohelied 5,7 durch Gregor von Nyssa / Piet Hein Hupsch -- La tríada yegua – amiga – hija y la estructura de los libros III–IV del comentario niseno al Cantar / Manuel Mira -- The Divine Names and Their Use in Gregory of Nyssa’s In Canticum Canticorum / Georgios D. Panagopoulos -- “The Bridegroom Descended to His Garden and the Garden Blossomed Again”: Images of the Incarnation in the Homilies on the Song of Songs by Gregory of Nyssa / Helena Panczová -- The Multiform Wisdom of God, Apophasis and the Church in Gregory of Nyssa’s Reading of Rom 1.20 in Cant XIII / Johannes Aakjær Steenbuch -- Mixture, Beauty, and the Incarnation in Gregory’s In Canticum Canticorum / Luke Steven.