Comments on: Defending the Church’s Language for the Trinity, with Gregory of Nyssa https://livingchurch.org/covenant/defending-the-churchs-language-for-the-trinity-with-gregory-of-nyssa/ Sat, 12 Oct 2024 17:41:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Christopher R Seitz https://livingchurch.org/covenant/defending-the-churchs-language-for-the-trinity-with-gregory-of-nyssa/#comment-18169 Sat, 12 Oct 2024 17:41:49 +0000 https://livingchurch.org/?p=81787#comment-18169 In reply to Terence Dougherty.

I believe Nyssa would regard “biblical authors” as agents divinely inspired in ways that are meant to direct our own thinking and acting, and not on direct analogy with ourselves (who impute all manner of things, to use your language here). “We are not prophets or apostles” but rather understand God rightly by receiving their particular testimony given in sacred scripture.

I thank the author for his helpful and clear essay.

]]> By: Terence Dougherty https://livingchurch.org/covenant/defending-the-churchs-language-for-the-trinity-with-gregory-of-nyssa/#comment-18048 Fri, 11 Oct 2024 12:30:13 +0000 https://livingchurch.org/?p=81787#comment-18048 So, help us understand: the biblical authors were immune to imputing human imagery to God, then something about being human changed? Now we impute human imagery, but father/son is not human imagery? Fascinating.

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