Nyssa
Cappadocia
A small episcopal see in Roman Cappadocia (modern central Turkey) whose name entered Christian intellectual history as the bishopric of Gregory of Nyssa, one of the Cappadocian Fathers.
12 most-discussed ideas
Teachers who lived here
Works composed here
- 395
Against Eunomius
- 395
Answer to Eunomius' Second Book
- 395
Funeral Oration on Meletius
- 395
Letters
- 395
On 'Not Three Gods.'
- 395
On Infants' Early Deaths
- 395
On Pilgrimages
- 395
On Virginity
- 395
On the Baptism of Christ
- 395
On the Faith
- 395
On the Holy Spirit
- 395
On the Holy Trinity, and of the Godhead of the Holy Spirit
- 395
On the Making of Man
- 395
On the Soul and the Resurrection
- 395
The Great Catechism
Ideas shaped here
Concepts most frequently discussed in the works composed at Nyssa. Click any to trace the idea across time and place.
- Arianism99 passages
- Eternal Generation of the Son76 passages
- Consubstantiality (Homoousios)70 passages
- The Holy Trinity55 passages
- The Incarnation34 passages
- Subordinationism31 passages
- The Human Soul30 passages
- Divine Incomprehensibility26 passages
- Divine Attributes23 passages
- Logos Christology23 passages
- Image of God22 passages
- Heresy20 passages