The Biographical Works Of Gregory Of Nyssa: Proceedings Of The Fifth International Colloquium On Gregory Of Nyssa, Mainz, 6-10 September 1982.

) BR65.G76 156 1982 International Coll o qUIum . . . Blographioal works of Gregory of Nyssa ~>, PATRISTIC MONOGRAPH SERIES, No. 12 THE BIOGRAPHICAL WORKS OF GREGORY OF NYSSA Proceedings of the Fifth InternationaZ CoZZoquium on Gregory of Nyssa (Mainz~ 6-10 September 1982) Edited by Andreas Spira Sl VLADIMIR'S SEMINARY LIBRARY 575 SCARSDALE ROAD CRESTWOOD, TUCKAHOE, N.Y. 10107 Published by ia Patristic Foundation, Ltd. 1984 , - 'R yap TWV EUTIOALTEUTWV UVopWV LaTopCa o~6v TL ~Ws TOLs aW~O~€VOLs TIPOs TnV ToD SCOD OOOV £~TIOLEL. Basitius, In Gord. mart. 1. Copyright ~ 1984 The Philadelphia Patristic Foundation 99 Bratt1e Street Cambridge, MA 02138 U.S,A. Library of Congress Catalog Number: 84-81655 ISBN: 0-915646-11-0 - III - PREFACE This volume contains the greater part of the papers given at the Fifth International Colloquium on St. Gregory of Nyssa, held from 6 to 10 September 1982 in Mainz. The times are not propitious to the publication of "collected papers". So my thanks are first due to Dr. Donald Winslow, who encouraged this publication with his kind readiness to include once more a volume of Gregorian proceedings in the Patristic Monograph Series. My second great obligation is to those who, with public funds becoming increasingly meagre these days, provided the means for establishing a complex research manuscript: to the Philadelphia Patristic Foundation Ltd., who gave us the financial start; to the foundation "Freunde der Universitat Mainz e. V." for a very substantial grant; to Dr. Josef A. Kohl for a most liberal private donation; and, finally, to Professor Otto Saame, who kindly let us have for many months the word processor of his institute. Impossible to give adequate thanks to all those who gave, as Seneca said, what even the most grateful mind is unable to restore, namely their time: to Frau Irmgard Schilling, who typed this multilingual manuscript; to Dr. Manfred Moser, who took care of the layout and to whose taste and patience is due whatever in this book is optically pleasing; to Marie-Luise Gnad and Henriette Meissner, without whose reiterated vigilant proof-reading I would not have dared to ready this work for the public. The colloquium itself would not have materialized without the considerable financial support by the Volkswagen Foundation and without the kind hospitality of the Rev. Klaus Reinhardt, who put to our disposal the beautiful baroque building of the Mainz seminary - V- with all its modern facilities. Further thanks are due to the former Vicepresident and now President of the University of Mainz, Professor Dr. rer.nat. Klaus Beyermann, for opening the conference; to His Eminence Hermann Cardinal Volk, then Bishop of Mainz, for his exhortatory salutation; and to the Right Reverend Maurus Berve, O.S.B., Abbot of Neuburg, for his important inaugural lecture. A. S. Ma:l.nz 1984 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction Georg LUCK, Notes on the Vita Macrinae by Gregory of Nyssa 21 Monique ALEXANDRE, Les nouveaux martyrs. Motifs martyrologiques dans la vie des saints et themes hagiographiques dans l'eloge des martyrs chez Gregoire de Nysse 33 Marguerite HARL, Morse figure de l'eveque dans l'Eloge de Basile de Gregoire de Nysse (381). Un plaidoyer pour l'autorite episcopale 71 Basil STUDER, Meletius von Antiochien, der erste Prasident des Konzils von Konstantinopel (381), nach der Trauerrede Gregors von Nyssa 121 Martin ESPER, Enkomiastik und Christianismos in Gregors epideiktischer Rede auf den Heiligen Theodor 145 Christoph KLOCK, Architektur im Dienste der Heiligenverehrung. Gregor als Kirchenbauer