Gregory of Nyssa discusses the long-before believed possibility of purification of souls after death.

Pope Gregory I repeats the concept, articulated over a century earlier by Gregory of Nyssa that the saved suffer purification after death, in connection with which he wrote of " purgatorial flames ".

In ancient literature, we find a reference to the workings of water-powered marble saws close to Trier, now Germany, by the late 4th century poet Ausonius ; about the same time, these mill types seem also to be indicated by the Christian saint Gregory of Nyssa from Anatolia, demonstrating a diversified use of water-power in many parts of the Roman Empire.

Both Tertullian and Gregory of Nyssa were church fathers who were married.

* Gregory of Nyssa

Her older half-sister Pulcheria predeceased her parents as mentioned in the writings of Gregory of Nyssa, placing the death of Pulcheria prior to the death of Aelia Flaccilla, first wife of Theodosius I, in 385.

Along with the brothers Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa, he is known as one of the Cappadocian Fathers.

Although Gregory's health did not permit him to attend the funeral, he wrote a heartfelt letter of condolence to Basil's brother, Gregory of Nyssa and composed twelve memorial poems dedicated to the memory of his departed friend.

Some of Gregory's theological writings suggest that, like his friend Gregory of Nyssa, he may have supported some form of the doctrine of apocatastasis, the belief that God will bring all of creation into harmony with the Kingdom of Heaven.

Gregory of Nyssa ( c. 335 – 395 ), believed that the Prophet Esaias ( Isaiah ) " knew more perfectly than all others the mystery of the religion of the Gospel.

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Other prominent and accessible traditional commentaries are those of Apponius and Nilus of Ancyra ( Sources Chrétiennes ) and Gregory of Nyssa and Rupert of Deutz ( Fontes Christiani ).

" Theodorus Abucara, Macarius, and Gregory of Nyssa also favored this view.

Traducianism was initially developed by Tertullian and arguably propagated by Augustine of Hippo, and has been endorsed by Gregory of Nyssa, Anastasius Sinaita, Hilary of Poitiers, Ambrose of Milan, many in the early Catholic Church ), various Lutheran churches, and some modern theologians such as Augustus H. Strong ( Baptist ), W. G. T. Shedd and Gordon Clark ( Presbyterian ), Lewis Sperry Chafer, Millard Erickson, Norman L. Geisler, Robert Culver, and Robert L. Reymond.

Proponents of Christian Universalism claim a long history, beginning with Origen and Gregory of Nyssa, although both of these are questioned by modern scholarship and Orthodox scholars.

* Volume V. Gregory of Nyssa: Dogmatic Treatises ; Select Writings and Letters

Gregory of Nyssa ( c. 335 – c. 395 ) ( also known as Gregory Nyssen ) was bishop of Nyssa from 372 to 376, and from 378 until his death.

Gregory was elected bishop of the new see of Nyssa in 372, presumably with the support of his brother Basil, who was metropolitan of Caesarea.

Gregory faced opposition to his reign in Nyssa, and, in 373 Amphilochius, bishop of Iconium had to visit the city to quell discontent.

In the same year Basil died, and despite the relative unimportance of Nyssa, Gregory took over many of his brother's former responsibilities in Pontus.

After a stay of several months, a substitute was found-possibly Gregory's brother Peter, who is known to have been bishop of Sebaste from 381, and Gregory returned home to Nyssa to write books I and II of Against Eunomius.

Ambrose ranks with Augustine, Jerome, and Gregory the Great, as one of the Latin Doctors of the Church.

In the monastic library at Jarrow were a number of books by theologians, including works by Basil, Cassian, John Chrysostom, Isidore of Seville, Origen, Gregory of Nazianzus, Augustine of Hippo, Jerome, Pope Gregory I, Ambrose of Milan, Cassiodorus, and Cyprian.

Bede was the first to refer to Jerome, Augustine, Pope Gregory and Ambrose as the four Latin Fathers of the Church.

Through Origen and especially the scholarly presbyter Pamphilus of Caesarea, an avid collector of books of Scripture, the theological school of Caesarea won a reputation for having the most extensive ecclesiastical library of the time, containing more than 30, 000 manuscripts: Gregory Nazianzus, Basil the Great, Jerome and others came and studied there.

Peter the Deacon gives a list of some seventy books Desiderius had copied at Monte Cassino, including works of Saint Augustine, Saint Ambrose, Saint Bede, Saint Basil, Saint Jerome, Saint Gregory of Nazianzus and Cassian, the registers of Popes Felix and Leo, the histories of Josephus, Paul Warnfrid, Jordanes and Saint Gregory of Tours, the Institutes and Novels of Justinian, the works of Terence, Virgil and Seneca, Cicero's De natura deorum, and Ovid's Fasti.

* Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome, and Pope Gregory I are named the first Doctors of the Church.

Beyond film and television, many classical dancers and choreographers, Rudolf Nureyev, Sammy Davis, Jr., Michael Jackson, Gregory Hines, Mikhail Baryshnikov, George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins among them, also acknowledged his importance and influence.

Comparable accounts survive, including those by the Church Father, Gregory of Nazianzus and by Jerome in his commentary to Zephaniah written in 392 CE.

Jamb statues of Saints Martin, Jerome, and Gregory

Many of the earliest Christians who followed the Septuagint calculated creation around 5500 BC, and Christians up to the Middle-Ages continued to use this rough estimate: Clement of Alexandria ( 5592 BC ), Julius Africanus ( 5501 BC ), Eusebius ( 5228 BC ), Jerome ( 5199 BC ) Hippolytus of Rome ( 5500 BC ), Theophilus of Antioch ( 5529 BC ), Sulpicius Severus ( 5469 BC ), Isidore of Seville ( 5336 BC ), Panodorus of Alexandria ( 5493 BC ), Maximus the Confessor ( 5493 BC ), George Syncellus ( 5492 BC ) and Gregory of Tours ( 5500 BC ).

His last major commission was to paint the chapel at Wimpole Hall, he started work on the preliminary sketches in 1713 and the work was finished by 1724, the north wall has fictive architecture and four statues all in Trompe-l ' œil of the four Doctors of the Church: St. Gregory, St. Ambrose, St. Augustine & St. Jerome.

A number of 3rd-and 4th-century Roman writers also mention Thomas ' trip to India, including Ambrose of Milan, Gregory of Nazianzus, Jerome, and Ephrem the Syrian, while Eusebius of Caesarea records that his teacher Pantaenus visited a Christian community in India in the 2nd century.

Disapproving references to such uses can be found in the writings of Saints Jerome and Eligius, and Alcuin, but they are accepted by John Chrysostom, Augustine, who " expresses qualified approval " of using manuscripts as a cure for headaches, and Gregory the Great, who sent one to Queen Theodelinda for her son.

Saint Ambrose, Saint Augustine, Saint Jerome, and Pope Gregory I were the original Doctors of the Church and were named in 1298.

) treats of theology or mythology, and winds up with an account of the Holy Scriptures and of the Fathers, from Ignatius and Dionysius the Areopagite to Jerome and Gregory the Great, and even of later writers from Isidore and Bede, through Alcuin, Lanfranc and Anselm, down to Bernard of Clairvaux and the brethren of St Victor.

Above these two are the four great Doctors of the Church: SS Augustine, Gregory, Jerome and Ambrose.

* A Metaphrasis eis ton Ekklesiasten tou Solomontos, or paraphrase of Ecclesiastes, is attributed to him by some manuscripts ; others ascribe it to Gregory of Nazianzus ; St. Jerome ( De vir.

The 4th and 5th centuries also saw an explosion of Christian literature, of which Greek writers such as Eusebius of Caesarea, Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus and John Chrysostom, and Latin writers as Ambrose of Milan, Jerome and Augustine of Hippo are only among the most renowned representatives.

He played basketball under coach Gregory Adams at St. Jerome School in Bronx, New York.

The upholders of this view point to passages in Scripture and in the Fathers, notably to the words of Paul ; and to the testimony of Cyprian, Arnobius, Lactantius, and to Gregory of Nazianzus, Augustine of Hippo, Jerome and John Chrysostom.

* The works of Saint Jerome and Gregory the Great, with which Henry had a passing familiarity.

* The Fathers ( including developments in Jewish philosophy, Islamic philosophy ( which he calls Mohammedan throughout, after the fashion of his time ), St Ambrose, St Jerome, St Augustine, St Benedict and Pope Gregory the Great )