Life and setting
Gregory of Nyssa, younger brother of Basil, wrote on the Trinity, creation, the spiritual life and biblical interpretation and participated in late fourth-century theological controversies.
Cappadocian Fathers • Eastern / Nicene Christianity
Gregory of Nyssa
c. 335 – c. 395 • Bishop and theologian
Why this person matters
He is one of the major Cappadocian theologians and an important source for later Eastern Christian thought.
What should not be sanitized
Some of his statements about final restoration have generated long-running debates over how universalist his eschatology was.