Abstract
Summary With the modern reservations against metaphysics, the relationship between the Christian dogma and Greek metaphysics has become problematic. This in itself historical problem is often approached with unhistorical prejudices. On the other hand, we are not the first to experience this relationship as a problematic one. Thus the Christian scheme of two or three hypostases cannot be derived directly from Middle Platonism, whereas someone like Plotinus consciously reacted to the Christian concept on the one hand and to Aristotle on the other. Also, he attributed a positive value to the concept of infinity in connection with God. With Gregory of Nyssa, this concept is established definitively in Christian theology. This is not the first time that the concept of infinity was valued positively, as E. Muhlenberg has claimed, but Gregory used the concept with more precision. Miihlenberg's reconstruction of two arguments against Eunomius, one from God's immutability and one from God's simplicity, is to be re...
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