Gregory of Nyssa's Christological language of mixture received a long
criticism for its technical deficiency. However its lack of precision
and its limits (which is obvious when compared with the later
terminological development), Gregory seems to use the language of
mixture on a coherent way. From the perspective of the internal
akolouthia of Gregory's thought, his theological use of mixture
vocabulary seems to refer to a kind of ineffable union closely related
with two main principles of his doctrine: the infinite transcendence of
God and his real presence through his economy. The anthropological and
Christological sense of Gregory's mixture language represents an effort
to preserve God's transcendence and to avoid dualism, both in the
conception of Creation and Incarnation. This paper deals, through the
analysis of some selected text, with the interconnection of
Creation-Incarnation-Restoration in Gregory's theology seen from the
perspective of his mixture language. Gregory's texts suggest that he
would be drawing a new meaning of a common language in order to affirm
the real union of two irreducible realities caused by the Wisdom of the
Logos, which is both uniform and multiform (cf. Cant VIII: GNO VI
254-255). Our aim is to point out that Gregory's Christology, expressed
on a non-technical vocabulary, seems to be more clear -even apophatic-
if it is considered from the perspective of the internal coherence of
his thought.
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