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Gregory of Nyssa and Universalism - David Bentley Hart

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With Gregory, you get the fullest systematic approach as a result, first of all, of his works not having been destroyed, as many of Arin were. So, I think you are getting a purer, truer picture of the Argan Vision through Gregory.

But then also, Gregory integrates it in different ways in his, uh, treatises, in his spiritual treatises, in his sermons, in his, uh, exegetical works on the Book of Genesis. You see the most systematic expression of what was probably, I think, the high, uh, patristic, uh, universalism of his time.

I suspect that, uh, actually Gregory of Naans shared that Vision. I think he was even a purer Orist in some ways than Gregory of Nissa. As for Basil, Gregory's older brother, the one place where he seems to be condemning universalism, I don't even think, uh, he himself was the author of that.

That's in the Regula that I think actually has the work of many different hands over many generations. I suspect that all of the Capid doans were basically Origins, and you, Gregory Thur, just did a miss the blind.

Um, uh, it just was a very large tradition, and I think with Gregory you get the fullest unfolding of the sort of theology that most of them, I think, shared.