Thinking the World: Gregory of Nyssa on the Definitive Calling of Humanity
International Journal of Systematic Theology November 5, 2025 Rowan Williams
Abstract In this response essay to John Behr’s Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God , Rowan Williams highlights Gregory’s exposition of the complex account of nous and its meaning in relation to sensory embodiment. Nous , in Gregory’s treatise, is the presence of unified divine activity in the diversity of creation. Created nous , in turn, refers to how the creature harmonizes a...