GREGORY NYSSA TABERNACLE IMAGERY OECS C

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-871539-9
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

Integrating patristics and early Jewish mysticism, this book examines Gregory of Nyssa's tabernacle imagery, as found in Life of Moses 2. 170-201. Previous scholarship has often focused on Gregory's interpretation of the darkness on Mount Sinai as divine incomprehensibility. However, true to Exodus, Gregory continues with Moses's vision of the tabernacle 'not made with hands' received within that darkness. This innovative methodology of heuristic comparison doesn't strive to prove influence, but to use heavenly ascent texts as a foil, in order to shed new light on Gregory's imagery. Ann Conway-Jones presents a well-rounded, nuanced understanding of Gregory's exegesis, in which mysticism, theology, and politics are intertwined.

Heavenly ascent texts use descriptions of religious experience to claim authoritative knowledge. For Gregory, the high point of Moses's ascent into the darkness of Mount Sinai is the mystery of Christian doctrine. The heavenly tabernacle is a type of the heavenly Christ. This mystery is beyond intellectual comprehension, it can only be grasped by faith; and only the select few, destined for positions of responsibility, should even attempt to do so.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Conway-Jones, Ann

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Spiritualität & Mystik (Kabbala, Chassidismus)
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliche Spiritualität, Christliche Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Dedication

- Preface

- Abbreviations

- 1: Gregory, the Tabernacle, and Heavenly Ascent

- 2: Gregory of Nyssa and Life of Moses

- 3: Biblical Contexts

- 4: Alexandrian Context

- 5: Heavenly Ascent Context

- 6: Darkness

- 7: The Tabernacle Not Made with Hands

- 8: Christological Interpretation

- 9: Divine Names

- 10: Heavenly Powers

- 11: The Earthly Tabernacle

- 12: Heavenly and Earthly Worship

- 13: The Holy of Holies

- 14: The Priestly Vestments

- 15: The Value of Heuristic Comparison

- Conclusions

- Appendix: Translation of Life of Moses 1.46-56, 61; 2.162-201

- Glossary

- Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Ann Conway-Jones is an Accredited Lay Worker of the Church of England, who has worked in a parish and as a university chaplain. She has long been involved in Jewish-Christian relations, and is now joint Honorary Secretary of the Council of Christians and Jews. Dr Conway-Jones teaches theology in both academic and church settings; and has been appointed an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham.