Gregori wa Nisa

Mt. Gregori wa Nisa
(picha ya ukutani wa karne ya 14t, Chora Church, Istanbul, Uturuki.)

Gregori wa Nisa (Neocaesarea, 335 – Nisa, 395) alikuwa askofu wa Nisa miaka 372 - 376, halafu 378 hadi kifo chake.

Gregori, pamoja na kaka yake Basili Mkuu na rafiki yao Gregori wa Nazianzo wanatajwa kama Mababu wa Kapadokia.

Gregori hakuwa na kipaji cha uongozi cha kaka yake Basili, wala hakuathiri Kanisa kama Gregori wa Nazianzo, lakini alikuwa na akili na elimu kubwa zilizomwezesha kuchangia sana teolojia kuhusu Utatu na maisha ya kiroho. Kwa sababu ya kushika imani sahihi, kaisari Valens, mfuasi wa Ario, alimfukuza jimboni.

Anaheshimiwa kama mtakatifu na Kanisa Katoliki, Waorthodoksi, Waorthodoksi wa Mashariki, Walutheri na Waanglikana siku tofautitofauti.

Katika Kanisa la Kilatini ni tarehe 10 Januari.

Sala yake

Ee Mchungaji mwema, unakwenda wapi kuchunga, wewe unayebeba mabegani kundi lako lote?

Kwa kuwa kondoo yule pekee anawakilisha ubinadamu wote uliobeba mabegani mwako.

Unionyeshe mahali pa pumziko, unifikishe kwenye majani mema ya kunilisha, uniite kwa jina, ili mimi pia, niliye kondoo, niweze kusikia sauti yako na kwa hiyo niweze kupata uzima wa milele: “Unionyeshe mpenzi wa roho yangu”.

Ndivyo ninavyokuita, kwa kuwa jina lako liko juu ya kila jina na uelewa, wala ulimwengu wote wa viumbe wenye akili hauwezi kulitaja nakulielewa.

Basi, jina lako, ambamo wema wako unajitokeza, unawakilisha upendo wa roho yangu kwako.

Kwa kuwa ningewezaje kutokupenda, baada ya wewe kunipenda mno? Ulinipenda hivi hata ukatoa uhai wako kwa kundi la malisho yako.

Haiwezekani kufikiria upendo mkuu kuliko huo. Umelipa wokovu wangu kwa uhai wako.

Tazama pia

• Watakatifu wa Agano la Kale
• Orodha ya Watakatifu Wakristo
• Orodha ya Watakatifu wa Afrika
• Orodha ya Watakatifu Wafransisko
• Mababu wa Kanisa

Maandishi yake

De virginitate

Maandishi yake yote katika lugha asili ya Kigiriki pamoja na ufafanuzi wa Kilatini yanapatikana katika mfululizo Gregorii Nysseni Opera:

• Vol. 1 - (2002) Contra Eunomium libri I et II. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-03007-7. 
• Vol. 2 - (2002) Contra Eunomium liber III. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-03934-6. 
• Vol. 3/1 - (1958) Opera dogmatica minora, pars I. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-04788-4. 
• Vol. 3/2 - (1987) Opera dogmatica minora, pars II. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-07003-5. 
• Vol. 3/3 - Opera dogmatica minora, pars III - currently unavailable.
• Vol. 3/4 - (1996) Opera dogmatica minora, pars IV. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-10348-1. 
• Vol. 3/5 - (2008) Opera dogmatica minora, pars V. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-13314-3. 
• Vol. 4/1 - (2009) Opera exegetica In Genesim, pars I. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-13315-0. 
• Vol. 4/2 - Opera exegetica In Genesim, pars II - currently unavailable.
• Vol. 5 - (1986) In Inscriptiones Psalmorum: In Sextum Psalmum: In Ecclesiasten Homiliae. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-08186-4. 
• Vol. 6 - (1986) In Canticum Canticorum. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-08187-1. 
• Vol. 7/1 - (2009) Opera exegetica In Exodum et Novum Testamentum, pars 1. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-00747-5. 
• Vol. 7/2 - (1992) Opera exegetica In Exodum et Novum Testamentum, pars 2. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-09598-4. 
• Vol. 8/1 - (1986) Opera ascetica et Epistulae, pars 1. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-08188-8. 
• Vol. 8/2 - (2002) Opera ascetica et Epistulae, pars 2. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-11182-0. 
• Vol. 9 - (1992) Sermones, pars 1. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-00750-5. 
• Vol. 10/1 - (1990) Sermones, pars 2. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-08123-9. 
• Vol. 10/2 - (1996) Sermones, pars 3. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-10442-6. 

Marejeo

• (1997) in John J. Cleary: The perennial tradition of Neoplatonism. Leuven University Press. ISBN 978-90-6186-847-7. 
• Sarah Coakley et al. (2003). Re-thinking Gregory of Nyssa. Willey-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-0637-5. 
• Jean Daniélou (1956). "Le mariage de Grégoire de Nysse et la chronologie de sa vie". Revue d' Etudes Augustiniennes et Patristiques 2: 71–78. http://documents.irevues.inist.fr/bitstream/2042/617/1/56_II_1_2_07.pdf. Retrieved 2012-07-27.
• (2002) The Trinity: an interdisciplinary symposium on the Trinity. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-924612-0. 
• Robert Jenson (2002). The Triune Identity: God According to the Gospel. Wipf & Stock. ISBN 978-1-57910-962-2. 
• Duane H. Larson (1995). Times of the trinity: a proposal for theistic cosmology. P. Lang. ISBN 978-0-8204-2706-5. 
• Morwenna Ludlow (2000). Universal salvation: eschatology in the thought of Gregory of Nyssa and Karl Rahner. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-827022-5. 
• Morwenna Ludlow (2007). Gregory of Nyssa : ancient and (post)modern. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-928076-6. 
• (2009) The Brill dictionary of Gregory of Nyssa. Leiden: BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-16965-4. 
• Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos, Life after Death Archived 29 Desemba 2011 at the Wayback Machine.. Retrieved 22 Januari 2012.
• Pfister, J. Emile (Juni 1964). "A Biographical Note: The Brothers and Sisters of St. Gregory of Nyssa". Vigiliae Christianae 18 (2): 108–113.
• Raymond Van Dam (2002). Kingdom of snow: Roman rule and Greek culture in Cappadocia. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-3681-1. 
• Raymond Van Dam (2003). Becoming Christian: the conversion of Roman Cappadocia. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-3738-2. 
• (1999) Portraits of spiritual authority: religious power in early Christianity, Byzantium, and the Christian Orient. Leiden: BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-11459-3. 

Marejeo mengine

• Azkoul, Michael (1995). St. Gregory of Nyssa and the tradition of the fathers. Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen Press. ISBN 0-7734-8993-2. 
• Maspero, Giulio (2007). Trinity and man - Gregory of Nyssa's Ad Ablabium. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-474-2079-8. 
• Meredith, Anthony (1995). The Cappadocians. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press. ISBN 0-88141-112-4. 

Viungo vya nje

• Gregory of Nyssa Home Page Archived 13 Mei 2008 at the Wayback Machine., including many English translations of his writings.
•  "St. Gregory of Nyssa". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
• Gregory of Nyssa from "The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy"
• Opera Omnia by Migne, Patrologia Graeca with analytical indexes.
• Relics of St. Gregory of Nyssa Archived 29 Februari 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
• Schaff's Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (online), including the works of St. Gregory
• Early Church Fathers: Gregory of Nyssa