Table of Contents

1 Introduction—Gender, Trinitarian Analogies, and the Pedagogy of The Song 1
Sarah Coakley

2 On Not Three People: The Fundamental Themes of Gregory of Nyssa’s Trinitarian Theology as Seen in To Ablabius: On Not Three Gods 15
Lewis Ayres

3 Divine Unity and the Divided Self: Gregory of Nyssa’s Trinitarian Theology in its Psychological Context 45
Michel René Barnes

4 Divine Transcendence and Human Transformation: Gregory of Nyssa’s Anti-Apollinarian Christology 67
Brian E. Daley, S.J.

5 Under Solomon’s Tutelage: The Education of Desire in the Homilies on the Song of Songs 77
Martin Laird

6 “Person” versus “Individual”, and Other Modern Misreadings of Gregory of Nyssa 97
Lucian Turcescu

7 The Mirror of the Infinite: Gregory of Nyssa on the Vestigia Trinitatis 111
David Bentley Hart

Index 133

About the Author

Sarah Coakley is the Mallinckrodt Professor at Harvard Divinity School.