In the next paragraph. [Morwenna Ludlow] -- Dr Ludlow compares and assesses two advocates of the belief that in the end God will save all people. something true for just Paul, but all of us through repentance, er hearing the Gospel. One is united to God by having faith in Him and becoming sanctified through “participation” in the Christian life. Christian Universalism in the Bible. Gregory’s interest in the salvation of Christians. Without skipping anything Gregory wrote, he continues: Christ assumed from death both the beginning of evil’s destruction and the dissolution of death; then, as it were, a certain order was consequently added. In doing this, he rejects the Origenist solution to the problem. apokatastasis). God united all of human nature to Himself—this is explicitly what the statement says. Theosis). It completely destroys death, having earlier removed sin which, as it is said, held dominion over all mankind. “For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive, .” But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then, ory is speaking of Christians, not the universal salvation of M. thras worshippers, Hindus, Buddhists, and whatever else. Two paragraphs later, we have another passage which the universalists will cling to, because (when taken out of context) it can be consistent with their false doctrine: Christ’s body, as it is often said, consists of human nature in its entirety to which he has been united. ( Log Out /
Wow, that passage of Ecclesiastes really throws a new light on the whole thing. Rather, he appears to be teaching that a non-descript number of people are purged of sins and God annihilates all evil in this sense. Clearly, because we recognize these are classes of people, this betrays the existence of yet another class: “those” who are not saved. But what does Gregory actually means takes place when evil is “completely annihilated.” Does this mean universalism? It completely destroys death, having earlier removed sin which, as it is said, held dominion over all mankind. ( Log Out / ( Log Out / Words such as these si, We therefore learn by the examples mentioned above, To have God means nothing else than to be united with him, . close to replacing even a small fraction of any of the preceding individually. It is not proper for God to be present in evil; thus, he will not be in everything as long as some evil remains. one, and by it made himself submissive and obedient. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. completely separated himself from sin and has utterly denied in himself the power of deat, ed its lordship and authority and might…if anyone like Paul may be, found who became a mighty imitator of Christ in his rejection of evil…, such a person will fall in behind the first fruits at Christ’s coming, Gregory wrote in what was previously quoted, he contrasts the preceding gr. His goodness neither goes up or down—it is constant. It first occurs in his "De animâ et resurrectione" (P.G., XLVI, cols. [Christ], through whom we have access to the Father. Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335 – 390s) Gregory ... Universalism was brought to the North American colonies in the early 18th century by the English-born physician George de Benneville, who was attracted by Pennsylvania's Quaker tolerance. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. In the preceding, we see the universalist exegesis of this treatise destroyed. However, in the end of this discussion he makes an important point which is necessary to understand in order to avoid misreading his conclusion. In this article, we will briefly summarize the argumentation in Il Illud and prove that the heretical reading is incorrect. It is the Christian whose goodness goes up and down. While the universalists may cling to the statement pertaining “those who are now excluded,” their zeroing in on this statement actually disproves their whole notion. It consists in saying that evil will come to nought and will be completely destroyed. If, then, the soul is purified of every vice, it will most certainly be in the sphere of Beauty. the grace of God and what the grace of God is. While many Orthodox or interested Christians may shy away from this treatise for fear of its alleged universalism, this would be a real shame. Gregory of Nyssa, Universalism, and Soteriological Mysteries Date: July 27, 2020 Author: Craig Truglia 0 Comments In this video I review Saint Gregory of Nyssa’s soteriology, how his categories of thought pre-date Saint Maximus the Confessor, why his view of apokatastasis is so logically compelling, and how Gregory’s understanding of human free will is (perhaps) deficient. Gregory then spends several paragraphs speaking of “subjection,” its virtue, and its varying meanings. It is in this vain the treatise begins. Sadly for us interpreters, as the work continues and Gregory elaborates his doctrine of restoration, he speculates about purgation after death (in Hades, he had no concept of Purgatory) would accomplish. Christians, who were once “enemies” and at “enmity with God” (cf Rom 8:7) have been reconciled so that death no longer has authority over them. In this article, we will briefly summarize the argumentation in, he treatise is simply talking about the salvation of Christians, While many Orthodox or interested Christians may shy away fro, d be a real shame. Unlike Basil, he even married. The ellipses (“…”) are original to the translation. When faith is added, the apostle says, “Let us attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ” [Eph 2.13]. 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Evil was destroyed along with sin, as well as the death which resulted; for death is simply the. Although Nyssa never received the Please bless the Moscow Patriarchate's missionary efforts in Cambodia to bring the Gospel to a people who have not heard it! Gregory of Nyssa once wrote, "the fire which man will experience in the next life will be different from the fire of the present life. But in the coming life, when mortality is at an end and immortality granted, and sin has no longer any place, God will be all in all. For example: So it is that, when the change is made into the impalpable Unseen, not even then will it be possible for the lovers of the flesh to avoid dragging away with them under any circumstances some fleshly foulness; and thereby their torment will be intensified, their soul having been materialized by such surroundings. As for Gregory of Nyssa’s alleged universalism, it seems with the church fathers it is a matter of hermeneutics, interpretations. “Those who are now excluded” will become part of “those who have decorated themselves in the Resurrection” after their purging. Drawing from Origen, evil must eventually disappear as it has no substance of its own. The salvation of Paul is “harmoniously applied to every human being” when every human being hears “the Gospel” after it has been “preached throughout the world.” We can see that Gregory’s references to “every human being” being saved is a contingent promise. It, hrist receives in himself all who are joined to him through the fellowship of. His argument consists in 1) the nature of God, 2) the nature of evil, which is non-Being or nothingness. Subjection to God is complete alienation from evil. Only if Gregory was this straightforward throughout the book! Taking the preceding into account, within On the Soul and Resurrection frequently betrays that his universalist-sounding passages are in fact not speaking of all mankind individually: Therefore, those who have parted with evil will be united with Him; and so, as the Apostle says, God will be all in all ; for this utterance seems to me plainly to confirm the opinion we have already arrived at, for it means that God will be instead of all other things, and in all. Thus, for God to be our food, it is proper to understand him as being eaten; the same applies to drink, clothing, shelter, air, location, wealth, enjoyment, beauty, health, strength, prudence, glory, blessedness and anything else judged good which our human nature needs. Thus, the subjection of this body will be said to be the subjection of [the] Church. [Morwenna Ludlow; Oxford University Press.] This cure consists in the cleansing of his soul, and that cannot be achieved without an excruciating condition, as has been expounded in our previous discussion. This treatise is popularly cited as the evidence that Gregory of Nyssa was a universalist and proponent of apokatastasis. We will see this be elaborated as the book unfolds. Gregory’s theory of divinization. He is atoned for all mankind. Paul looked to the true good al. In his continued parsing of “subjection” he writes as follows: Paul mentions this in his Epistle to the Romans: “For if we have been enemies, we have been reconciled to God” [Rom 5.10]. … This purgation, though with earlier precedent and later ascribed by other Orthodox saints, was probably a minority opinion of its time due to its obscure treatment in the Scriptures. (The Greek Anthology, book I … y Saint Gregory of Nyssa which concerns itself with. Gregory of Nyssa famously defended the doctrine of the Trinity in the Second Ecumenical Council in AD 381, and Gregory of Nyssa also defended the doctrine of universalism with the restoration of all things. If, that is, God will be in all existing things, evil; plainly, will not then be among them; for if any one was to assume that it did exist then, how will the belief that God will be in all be kept intact?…As for ourselves, we take our stand upon the tenets of the Church, and assert that it will be well to accept only so much of these speculations as is sufficient to show that those who indulge in them are to a certain extent in accord with the doctrine of the Resurrection. The paragraph continues on a universalist note: [I]t shall be that every will rests in God, evil will be reduced to complete annihilation, owing to no receptacle being left for it. The Greek … Due to these “experts” having deficient soteriologies derived from Protestantism and Roman Catholicism, they do not understand Gregory’s candid presumption that those reading would understand that we are saved by a participation in God’s energy and this salvation is a sanctifying process in which we are vivified by this energy (i.e. “The enemies” are the same of those who were formerly “slaves” in alleged “servile humility.” These are none other than the “friends” of God, the Christians themselves. ow can this be confused with universalism? I am confident that, when read as a whole (and in context), the universalist exegesis does not appear simply foolish—it appears completely inept. –Gregory of Nyssa (332-398 A.D.), leading theologian of the Eastern Church In the present life God is in all, for His nature is without limits, but he is not all in all. , who became the first fruits of our human nature, received in himself the divinity, first fruits of those who have fallen asleep and the first. The main reason I am writing you is to put in my opinions. This is, those obsessed with universalism spend more time, the introduction (which is longer than the treatise) and focusing on a few lines, than actually reading the work itself. T, s, good works, prayer, reading the Scriptures, and reading the saints themselves. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. (p. 7). ( Log Out / We propose a middle ground where the punishments for the lost in the afterlife are both purgatorial and judicial. However, in the end of this di, is necessary to understand in order to avoid misreading his conclusion. This is hardly a prooftext for universalism! Hence, from the whole preceding discussion, there is not a whiff that universalism is being seriously discussed or even implied. If Christ living in Paul works and speaks those things as a result of this indwelling, Paul has relinquished everything which formerly dominated him when he was a blasphemer, persecutor and behaved arrogantly. Lastly, just because Gregory does not teach universalism in this work, that does not mean he does not teach it elsewhere. For others, it makes them afraid to read Gregory. This doctrine was explicitly taught by St. Gregory of Nyssa, and in more than one passage. Gregory immediately continues on the same subject: According to the promise made in the Gospel, we are no longer slaves of the Lord; but once reconciled, we are numbered among his friends. As we can see, the traditional teaching of the Church is being reiterated. No longer do any of our passions rule our [human] nature, since it is necessary that none of them dominate – all are subjected to the one who rules over all. gregory of nyssa universalism. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. People get confused when they literalize statements such as “the complete whole of our race.” They do not interpret this seemingly categorical statement with what Gregory teaches elsewhere in the same book and with how he treats similar categorical assertions in other books. “This is apokatastasis.” However, one can only sigh with exasperation when hearing such an exegesis. Current Issue Furthermore, it is the same sort of explanation Gregory himself gives elsewhere in his Nativity Homily: The rest of the beast’s body, dispersed in human life, as long as mankind is motivated by evil, always roughens life with the scales of sin. Please bless the Moscow Patriarchate's missionary efforts in Cambodia to bring the Gospel to a people who have not heard it! It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me” [Gal 2.20]…Paul claims that the good works of the Gospel are not his; rather, he attributes them to the grace of Christ dwelling within him. It asserts that the unsaved will undergo hell, but that hell is remedial (neither everlasting nor purely retributive) according to key scriptures and that after purification or conversion all will enter Heaven. I am confident that, when read as a whole (and in con, text), the universalist exegesis does not appear simply foolish, But, what we have just seen is that the experts have ham-handed an extremely, and Roman Catholicism, they do not understand Gregory, andid presumption that those reading would understand that we are saved by a, nergy and this salvation is a sanctifying process, universalism in this work, that does not mean he does not teach it elsewhere. – St Gregory of Nazianzus Gregory of Nyssa by Michaela@bct. by the following words: “I have loved them as you have loved me” [Jn 17.23]. However, “our” is a key word we must zero in on. In discussing this, the conclusion is obviously drawn that it is the Christian who is in subjection to God and this pertains to his reconciliation. orks, one I will partake in by the grace of God, the prayers of Gregory, and I hope your own. The serpent’s power is now dead, since its head has been rendered useless, but as time passes and things endowed with motion come a standstill at the awaited consummation of this life, then the tail, the enemy’s last remaining part, that is, death, is annulled. St. Barsanuphius the Great and St. Mark of Ephesus, to name a few. For example: [I]n the Resurrection, and all the inveterate corruption of sin has vanished from the world, then a universal feast will be kept around the Deity by those who have decorated themselves in the Resurrection; and one and the same banquet will be spread for all, with no differences cutting off any rational creature from an equal participation in it; for those who are now excluded by reason of their sin will at last be admitted within the Holiest places of God’s blessedness, and will bind themselves to the horns of the Altar there, that is, to the most excellent of the transcendental Powers. Let’s take a look. The highest of all good things is salvation effected in us through estrangement from evil. Decrease of the good always results by straying from its principle, while, found closer to us insofar as it lies in each one’s dignity and powe. For nearly two thousand years Paul's suggestion at the end of 1 Corinthians 15 that God will be 'all in all' has appealed to those who hold a 'wider hope' that eventually no person will be lost from God's love. Third, more work needs to be done in reading the fathers than simply trusting the “experts” and “consensus.” The “Big Lie” is that these experts are never wrong. I must reiterate, it is unclear whether this is true of every individual human being, or if this is a poetic way of addressing the human race in a categorical sense–but not applying the preceding to each individual. . No amount of “consulting the scholarship” comes remotely close to replacing even a small fraction of any of the preceding individually. Therefore, every wicked authority and domination has been destroyed in us. Yet, Gregory has no issue with reflecting upon the issue in this sense. On this note, Gregory immediately continues: Such is the understanding of these teachings which we have accepted from the great Saint Paul. His purpose is to exegete from Exodus teachings about asceticism and warn against sins and passions. Here Paul calls, subjection reconciliation, one term indicating salvation by another word. The person who is divinized is explicitly “in Christ” and has “separated himself from sin” and in so doing “denied in himself the power of death” like Saint Paul. come to nought and will be completely destroyed. We can literally see that those who follow an evil example lose more and more goodness (because evil has no actual being, something Gregory points out at the treatise’s beginning) while the formerly evil can rectify this by following a good example and growing in sanctity. No amount of. Only hope that all humans shall might be saved 2 Peter 3:9, 1 Tm. Christ makes everyone as limbs of his own body – even if there are many such limbs, the body is one. He who is in the Father. Obviously, with all the discussion of Theosis throughout this whole treatise pertaining only to Christians, the reference to those who “will receive a trace of divinity in themselves” can refer to none other than those same Christians. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. On this note, Gregory immediately continues, has been subjected to God, he is brought to the One who lives, speaks and effects goo. One body has been formed with the good as predominant; our body’s entire nature is united to the divine, pure nature. Such things had their origin in God; what was made in the beginning did not receive evil, t make sin – the prophet says, “No deceit was found in his mouth” [Is 53.9]. In short, God is infinitely good and can only create good. Later on, he also rejects reincarnation and the pre-existence of souls on the principle a rational soul like a man’s cannot come from or become later an irrational soul, thereby contradicting Origen. Like his older brother, he opted at first for a secular career in rhetoric. Gregory gives a really easy-to-understand explanation of how Christians are saved by the grace of God and what the grace of God is. Gregory of Nyssa on future punishment. He does this without postulating that any rational creature will cease existence. Help Grow the Orthodox Church in Cambodia! Such grace is more clearly shown by the following words: “I have loved them as you have loved me” [Jn 17.23]. “Aha!,” says the universalist. No longer does he lack anything added to his body by buil, ding, since he is wholly constructed upon the foundation of prophets and, of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, , to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of t, are in the Church and therefore united to God Himself. ( Log Out / Words such as these signify what is proper to God. When we grow dispassionate by mortifying the flesh and pursuing ascesis “we are removed from evil in imitation of the First–fruits.” Gregory connects the idea from the previous passage, that we become the exemplar we follow, and shows that those who follow after Christ’s example are “united to the divine, pure nature.” Ironically, this is the opposite of the wicked who “little by little” increase in wickedness by following a wicked example. For yet more, it calls into doubt the integrity of the Church’s canonizations, as we supposedly have a “saint” who teaches condemned heresy. 5 5. Gregory gives a really easy, -to-understand explanation of how Christians are saved by. His good is only such to one whose will cooperates with God’s—it is the will which allows for the increase and decrease of God’s goodness as applicable to the individual. It is within this context we must understand the whole work. For as salvation is brought near to us by subjection, Paul says in another place, “Being reconciled, we shall be saved in this life” [Rom 5.10]. Gregory connects the idea from the previous passage, that we become the ex, , and shows that those who follow after Chri, Ironically, this is the opposite of the wicked who, increase in wickedness by following a wicked example. In fact, universalists (and others who simply do not understand Gregory) prefer to believe he is frequently contradicting himself and borders on incomprehensible, than admit his universalist language is a kind of poetic hyperbole whose point is to emphasize the immense (and infinite!) Or something else? Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Gregory of Nyssa and the Concept of Divine Persons, Lucian Turcescu (2005) Gregory of Nyssa, Ancient and (Post)modern, Morwenna Ludlow (2007) Barth, Origen, and Universal Salvation, Tom Greggs (2009) Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and the Transformation of Divine Simplicity, Andrew Radde-Gallwitz (2009) [Morwenna Ludlow] Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335 – c. 395) (also known as Gregory Nyssen) was bishop of Nyssa from 372 to 376, and from 378 until his death. lived with men accomplishes intercession. ing of one another up leads to Christ uniting these disparate members to Himself, divinizing them: If the head, in turn, builds up the body, it joins, connects and brings together everything else fo, r which it was born according to the measu, re of its function, such as the hand, foot, eye, ear or any other part complet, ing the body in proportion to each person’s faith. The preceding would appear to be a negation of what was taught about the Rich Man and Lazarus. The treatise is simply talking about the salvation of Christians— not universalism. Posted by 8 years ago. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me” [Gal 2.20], good works of the Gospel are not his; rather, he attributes them to the grace of Christ dwelli, . the sacraments or quasi-sacramental realities]. She asks whether this idea of universal salvation is a truly Christian concept. In speaking of this purgation, which we can agree from the above parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus is not applicable literally to every individual, the vagaries of language certainly give off an air of universalism. This, prooftext for universalism! Universal Salvation: Eschatology in the Thought of Gregory of Nyssa and Karl Rahner (Oxford Theological Monographs) - Kindle edition by Ludlow, Morwenna. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Universal Salvation: Eschatology in the Thought of Gregory of Nyssa and Karl Rahner … imple moral lesson we can glean from the preceding, ord for anything. constant. Later on, Gregory writes again to the effect that he is speculating on an opinion that is not accepted by most: But He that becomes all things will be in all things too; and herein it appears to me that Scripture teaches the complete annihilation of evil. As a simple moral lesson we can glean from the preceding is that we must not simply take another’s word for anything. It is those who participate in the life of Christ, God Himself. Timothy, who as much as he could, was also imitating his teacher; there are other persons not quite like him who, one after another, suffer little, by little a loss of goodness and are found to follow behind certain people, who are always ready to anticipate and lead until the followers, by continual imitations, resemble (, reach) their leaders in whom there is little good because evil abounds, me way, there is a conformity that comes from those who are less flawed and, , as a consequence, turn from those who excel in evil by following their own inclinations and who ar, e driven back from better things until at the last gasp of evil, growth in goodne, ss achieves the destruction of evil. Universalism. What can we conclude from the preceding? He does not make any menti, on of anything that pertains to universalism. Gregory continues in his exegesis to the same effect: Those, then, whose reasoning powers have never been exercised and who have never had a glimpse of the better way soon use up on gluttony in this fleshly life the dividend of good which their constitution can claim, and they reserve none of it for the after life; but those who by a discreet and sober-minded calculation economize the powers of living are afflicted by things painful to sense here, but they reserve their good for the succeeding life, and so their happier lot is lengthened out to last as long as that eternal life. Unity then means to be one body with him as Paul state, ything, then the entirety of Christ’s body will be subjected to God’s vivifying power, Thus, the subjection of this body will be said to. It is a disservice to everyone that no one interprets Gregory’s own words according to his own teaching on the same topic. Therefore, by uniting us to himself, Christ is our unity. In, ul mentions this in his Epistle to the Romans: “For if we have been enemies, we have been re, conciled to God” [Rom 5.10]. The preceding is very clear. All who have rejected the old man with its deeds and desires have received the Lord who, of course, effects the good done by them.
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