Gregory of Nyssa: Contra Eunomium I: An English Translation with Supporting Studies. Edited by Miguel Brugarolas

Abstract

Between 380 and 383 Gregory of Nyssa wrote three volumes of polemic Contra Eunomium (henceforth CE) against the Trinitarian doctrines of the ‘anomoean’ (radical Arian) Eunomius of Cyzicus. Each of the three volumes of CE has been the subject of one of the international colloquia on Gregory held every four years or so since 1969, whose proceedings are now regularly published by Brill as supplements to Vigiliae Christianae. The current publication follows those on CE II and III, which appeared in 2007 and 2014 respectively (for CE III see JTS, ns 67 [2016], pp. 318–22). CE I was the topic of the colloquium held in Pamplona in 1986, and an earlier version of this volume was published by the University of Navarra in 1988. It has now been reissued by Brill in this revised and updated form, ‘to render that essential part of the original volume . . . more accessible to international readers’ and ‘to offer an up-to-date contribution to the research on [CE]’. It includes 11 selected papers from the previous edition, nine new articles (marked as such in the discussion below), and two original texts revised by the authors. Twelve of the papers are in English, five in German, four in French, and one in Spanish.