Podwójne stworzenie a soteriologia Grzegorza z Nyssy
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2008
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Wydział Teologiczny UAM
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Double Creation versus Soteriology in Gregory of Nyssa
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Gregory of Nyssa advocates the theory of a double creation, continuing, but also developing
and modifying concepts sketched earlier by Philo of Alexandra and Origen. Similarly as the great
Alexandrians, Nyssa finds grounds for his theory in Greek philosophy and the books of the Holy
Scriptures, ascribing Gen 1,27a the first act of creatio, and the rest of the verse: „As man and woman
he created them” referring to the second act of creatio, preparing human being for the coming
fall. Whether Gregory resolves aporiae of his predecessors remains an open issue. However, only
taking into consideration his theory of the double creation, at least as it is portrayed in the tract De
hominis opifìcio, it is possible to define the place of human beings in the history of salvation both
in the universal and individual sense. Soteriology in the universal sense appears in the thought of
Nyssa as a general, arbitral re-creatio, and in the individual sense it takes a form of faith and hope
in metanoia and return all the humans to God.
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Poznańskie Studia Teologiczne, T. 22, 2008, s. 91-101