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Against Eunomius

St Gregory of Nyssa, NPNF II.5

To Peter His Brother
To Peter His Brother
Book 1, Section 1: Preface.—It is Useless to Attempt to Benefit Those Who Will Not Accept…
Book 1, Section 2: We Have Been Justly Provoked to Make This Answer, Being Stung by…
Book 1, Section 3: We See Nothing Remarkable in Logical Force in the Treatise of…
Book 1, Section 4: Eunomius Displays Much Folly and Fine Writing, But Very Little…
Book 1, Section 5: His Peculiar Caricature of the Bishops, Eustathius of Armenia and…
Book 1, Section 6: A Notice of Aetius, Eunomius’ Master in Heresy, and of Eunomius…
Book 1, Section 7: Eunomius Himself Proves that the Confession of Faith Which He Made Was…
Book 1, Section 8: Facts Show that the Terms of Abuse Which He Has Employed Against Basil…
Book 1, Section 9: In Charging Basil with Not Defending His Faith at the Time of the…
Book 1, Section 10: All His Insulting Epithets are Shewn by Facts to Be False
Book 1, Section 11: The Sophistry Which He Employs to Prove Our Acknowledgment that He…
Book 1, Section 12: His Charge of Cowardice is Baseless: For Basil Displayed the Highest…
Book 1, Section 13: Résumé of His Dogmatic Teaching. Objections to It in Detail
Book 1, Section 14: He Did Wrong, When Mentioning Life Doctrines of Salvation, in…
Book 1, Section 15: He Does Wrong in Making the Being of the Father Alone Proper and…
Book 1, Section 16: Examination of the Meaning of ‘Subjection:’ In that He Says that the…
Book 1, Section 17: Discussion as to the Exact Nature of the ‘Energies’ Which, This Man…
Book 1, Section 18: He Has No Reason for Distinguishing a Plurality of Beings in the…
Book 1, Section 19: His Acknowledgment that the Divine Being is ‘Single’ Is Only Verbal
Book 1, Section 20: He Does Wrong in Assuming, to Account for the Existence of the…
Book 1, Section 21: The Blasphemy of These Heretics is Worse Than the Jewish Unbelief
Book 1, Section 22: He Has No Right to Assert a Greater and Less in the Divine Being. A…
Book 1, Section 23: These Doctrines of Our Faith Witnessed to and Confirmed by Scripture…
Book 1, Section 24: His Elaborate Account of Degrees and Differences in ‘Works’ And…
Book 1, Section 25: He Who Asserts that the Father is ‘Prior’ To the Son with Any Thought…
Book 1, Section 26: It Will Not Do to Apply This Conception, as Drawn Out Above, of the…
Book 1, Section 27: He Falsely Imagines that the Same Energies Produce the Same Works,…
Book 1, Section 28: He Falsely Imagines that We Can Have an Unalterable Series of…
Book 1, Section 29: He Vainly This that the Doubt About the Energies is to Be Sowed by…
Book 1, Section 30: There is No Word of God that Commands Such Investigations: The…
Book 1, Section 31: The Observations Made by Watching Providence are Sufficient to Give…
Book 1, Section 32: His Dictum that ‘The Manner of the Likeness Must Follow the Manner of…
Book 1, Section 33: He Declares Falsely that ‘The Manner of the Generation is to Be Known…
Book 1, Section 34: The Passage Where He Attacks the ‘Omoouvsion’, and the Contention in…
Book 1, Section 35: Proof That the Anomoean Teaching Lends To Manichoeism
Book 1, Section 36: A Passing Repetition of the Teaching of the Church
Book 1, Section 37: Defence of S. Basil’s Statement, Attacked by Eunomius, that the Terms…
Book 1, Section 38: Several Ways of Controverting His Quibbling Syllogisms
Book 1, Section 39: Answer to the Question He is Always Asking, “Can He Who is Be…
Book 1, Section 40: His Unsuccessful Attempt to Be Consistent with His Own Statements…
Book 1, Section 41: The Thing that Follows is Not the Same as the Thing that It Follows
Book 1, Section 42: Explanation of ‘Ungenerate,’ And a ‘Study’ Of Eternity
Book 2, Section 1: The Second Book Declares the Incarnation of God the Word, and the…
Book 2, Section 2: Gregory Then Makes an Explanation at Length Touching the Eternal…
Book 2, Section 3: Gregory Proceeds to Discuss the Relative Force of the Unnameable Name…
Book 2, Section 4: He Next Skilfully Confutes the Partial, Empty and Blasphemous…
Book 2, Section 5: He Next Marvellously Overthrows the Unintelligible Statements of…
Book 2, Section 6: He Then Shows the Unity of the Son with the Gather and Eunomius’ Lack…
Book 2, Section 7: Gregory Further Shows that the Only-Begotten Being Begotten Not Only…
Book 2, Section 8: He Further Very Appositely Expounds the Meaning of the Term…
Book 2, Section 9: Gregory Again Discusses the Generation of the Only-Begotten, and Other…
Book 2, Section 10: He Explains the Phrase “The Lord Created Me,” And the Argument About…
Book 2, Section 11: After Expounding the High Estate of the Almighty, the Eternity of the…
Book 2, Section 12: He Thus Proceeds to a Magnificent Discourse of the Interpretation of…
Book 2, Section 13: He Expounds the Passage of the Gospel, “The Father Judgeth No Man,”…
Book 2, Section 14: He Proceeds to Discuss the Views Held by Eunomius, and by the Church,…
Book 2, Section 15: Lastly He Displays at Length the Folly of Eunomius, Who at Times…
Book 3, Section 1: This Third Book Shows a Third Fall of Eunomius, as Refuting Himself,…
Book 3, Section 2: He Then Once More Excellently, Approximately, and Clearly Examines and…
Book 3, Section 3: He Then Shows, from the Instance of Adam and Abel, and Other Examples,…
Book 3, Section 4: He Thus Shows the Oneness of the Eternal Son with the Father the…
Book 3, Section 5: He Discusses the Incomprehensibility of the Divine Essence, and the…
Book 3, Section 6: Thereafter He Expounds the Appellation of “Son,” And of “Product of…
Book 3, Section 7: Then He Ends the Book with an Exposition of the Divine and Human Names…
Book 4, Section 1: The Fourth Book Discusses the Account of the Nature of the “Product of…
Book 4, Section 2: He Convicts Eunomius of Having Used of the Only-Begotten Terms…
Book 4, Section 3: He Then Again Admirably Discussed the Term Prwtotokoz As It is Four…
Book 4, Section 4: He Proceeds Again to Discuss the Impassibility of the Lord’s…
Book 4, Section 5: He Again Shows Eunomius, Constrained by Truth, in the Character of an…
Book 4, Section 6: He Then Exposes Argument About the “Generate,” And the “Product of…
Book 4, Section 7: He Then Clearly and Skilfully Criticises the Doctrine of the…
Book 4, Section 8: He Proceeds to Show that There is No “Variance” In the Essence of the…
Book 4, Section 9: Then, Distinguishing Between Essence and Generation, He Declares the…
Book 5, Section 1: The Fifth Book Promises to Speak of the Words Contained in the Saying…
Book 5, Section 2: He Then Explains the Phrase of S. Peter, “Him God Made Lord and…
Book 5, Section 3: A Remarkable and Original Reply to These Utterances, and a…
Book 5, Section 4: He Thaws the Falsehood of Eunomius’ Calumnious Charge that the Great…
Book 5, Section 5: Thereafter He Shows that There are Not Two Christs or Two Lords, But…
Book 6, Section 1: The Sixth Book Shows that He Who Came for Man’s Salvation Was Not a…
Book 6, Section 2: Then He Again Mentions S. Peter’s Word, “Made,” And the Passage in the…
Book 6, Section 3: He Then Gives a Notable Explanation of the Saying of the Lord to…
Book 6, Section 4: Then Returning to the Words of Peter, “God Made Him Lord and Christ,”…
Book 7, Section 1: The Seventh Book Shows from Various Statements Made to the Corinthians…
Book 7, Section 2: He Then Declares that the Close Relation Between Names and Things is…
Book 7, Section 3: Thereafter He Discusses the Divergence of Names and of Things,…
Book 7, Section 4: He Says that All Things that are in Creation Have Been Named by Man,…
Book 7, Section 5: After Much Discourse Concerning the Actually Existent, and Ungenerate…
Book 8, Section 1: The Eighth Book Very Notably Overthrows the Blasphemy of the Heretics…
Book 8, Section 2: He Then Discusses the “Willing” Of the Father Concerning the…
Book 8, Section 3: Then, Thus Passing Over What Relates to the Essence of the Son as…
Book 8, Section 4: He Further Shows the Operations of God to Be Expressed by Human…
Book 8, Section 5: Then, After Showing that the Person of the Only-Begotten and Maker of…
Book 9, Section 1: The Ninth Book Declares that Eunomius’ Account of the Nature of God…
Book 9, Section 2: He Then Ingeniously Shows that the Generation of the Son is Not…
Book 9, Section 3: He Further Shows that the Pretemporal Generation of the Son is Not the…
Book 9, Section 4: Then, Having Shown that Eunomius’ Calumny Against the Great Basil,…
Book 10, Section 1: The Tenth Book Discusses the Unattainable and Incomprehensible…
Book 10, Section 2: He Then Wonderfully Displays the Eternal Life, Which is Christ, to…
Book 10, Section 3: He Then Shows the Eternity of She Son’s Generation, and the…
Book 10, Section 4: After This He Shows that the Son, Who Truly Is, and is in the Bosom…
Book 11, Section 1: The Eleventh Book Shows that the Title of “Good” Is Due, Not to the…
Book 11, Section 2: He Also Ingeniously Shows from the Passage of the Gospel Which Speaks…
Book 11, Section 3: He Then Exposes the Ignorance of Eunomius, and the Incoherence and…
Book 11, Section 4: After This, Fearing to Extend His Reply to Great Length, He Passes by…
Book 11, Section 5: Eunomius Again Speaks of the Son as Lord and God, and Maker of All…
Book 12, Section 1: This Twelfth Book Gives a Notable Interpretation of the Words of the…
Book 12, Section 2: Then Referring to the Blasphemy of Eunomius, Which Had Been Refuted…
Book 12, Section 3: He Further Proceeds Notably to Interpret the Language of the Gospel,…
Book 12, Section 4: He Then Again Charges Eunomius with Having Learnt His Term ἀγεννησία…
Book 12, Section 5: Then, Again Discussing the True Light and Unapproachable Light of the…
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Book 12, Answer to Eunomius’ Second Book