Gregory, younger brother of Basil the Great, was trained as a teacher of rhetoric before his brother made him bishop of the small town of Nyssa in 372. Briefly deposed by Arian opponents, he returned after the emperor Valens died.
After Basil's death in 379 he took up his brother's work, writing Against Eunomius to defend the full divinity of the Son, and was a leading voice at the Council of Constantinople in 381. His later writings on the spiritual life describe the soul's endless progress into the infinite God. He died about 395.
Gregory of Nyssa in the library (1 work)
- Gregory of Nyssa: Dogmatic Treatises, Select Writings and Letters — 1893
Against Eunomius, the Great Catechism, On the Soul and the Resurrection, On Virginity, and On the Making of Man — the philosophical voice of the Cappadocians.