Abstract
The mystical theory of redemption in the writings of Gregory of Nyssa is concentrated on contemplating the mistery of Incarnation – inclusion of deificated human nature of Jesus Christ in the monad of humanity. This unity is the structural ground of co-deification of humanity and it enables human nature to achieve its initial mission-imitating the Personal Image of God, revealed in the Incarnated. The objective deification, donated humanity, elaborated by Gregory in the imagery of first fruits leavening with their own sanctity the cake of human nature, derives its causative power from perichoresis of Jesus Christ nature. Intercession of the Son of God enables humanity to regain participation in God, lost because of sin and it establishes the icon of a synthetic homogenous view of salvation of man.
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