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A Paradosis of Mystical Theology between Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa

Anna Silvas

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Abstract

Recently, through the season of Lent we were treated to the book of Exodus in the Liturgy of the Hours and in the Mass. I do not know what is happening to this soul clamoring for Lectio Divina, out of an inept and failing life, but I was shaken to see what seemed to be three stages or modalities of theophany experienced by Moses.

First there is the theophany of light, as in the flame of fire: And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush (Ex 3:2)...

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGregory of Nyssa's Mystical Eschatology
EditorsGiulio Maspero, Miguel Brugarolas, Ilaria Vigorelli
Place of PublicationLeuven, Belgium
PublisherPeeters Publishers
Pages47-58
Volume101
ISBN (Print)9789042941397, 9789042941380
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

Publication series

NameStudia Patristica
Number101

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