Time and Creation in Gregory of Nyssa and Meister Eckhart

1. Entity type Lemma
2. Original titleΧρόνος και δημιουργία στον Γρηγόριο Νύσσης και τον Meister Eckhart
3. Language term Greek, Modern (1453-)
4. lemma author Katsiampoura, Gianna
5. lemma category Ethics - Key thinkers
6. Publication date 11-11-2017
7. lemma work Βαλσάμης, Γιώργος [Author]. Time and creation in Gregory of Nyssa and Meister Eckhart
8. lemma manifestations Time and creation in Gregory of Nyssa and Meister Eckhart
9. Keywords St Gregory of Nyssa - Time - world creation
10. Citations
    1. <p>Valsamis, George, <em>Χρόνος και δημιουργία στον Γρηγόριο Νύσσης και τον Meister Eckhart </em>(<em>Time and creation in Gregory of Nyssa and Meister Eckhart</em>), PhD Thesis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 2017</p>
11. Lemma body

    1. George Valsamis, in his work, tries to answer some questions, which relate with the concept of time in works of Gregory of Nyssa (335-395), one of the Fathers of Orthodox Church, and Meister Eckhard (1260-1328), a German theologian, philosopher and mystic. Some of them are the following: To what extent creation implies the Creator’s nearness to His works? What kind of ‘paradise’ man abandoned with the ‘transgression’? Which is the ‘prime matter’ of beings? What is the meaning for man of the spatiotemporal structure and change as opposed to the simplicity of the divine nature? What does the origin of beings ‘out of nothing’ mean? How is the divine will related to space and time? What is the meaning of the end of times? What does creation of man ‘according to the image’ mean? How is the soul related to Creation? How does Monotheism agree with trinitarianism and what is the real value of trinitarianism for the existence of God and man? Raising questions related with these issues, the current study of the cosmology of Gregory of Nyssa and Meister Eckhart highlights also the importance of theoretical similarities and differences between the two great Christian Mystics.