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Gregory of Nyssa as biographer : weaving lives for virtuous readers / Allison L. Gray.

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Book
Author/Creator:
Gray, Allison L., 1983- author.
Contributor:
ProQuest ebook central.
Series:
Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum ; 1436-3003 123.
Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, 1436-3003 ; 123
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Gregory, of Nyssa, Saint, approximately 335-approximately 394. Vita Moysis.
Gregory.
Gregory, of Nyssa, Saint, approximately 335-approximately 394. Vita Sanctae Macrinae.
Gregory, of Nyssa, Saint, approximately 335-approximately 394. Vita Gregorii Thaumaturgi.
Religious biography--History and criticism.
Religious biography.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages.)
Place of Publication:
Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2021]
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Preface
Introduction : The Woven Garment
A Biographical Snapshot of Gregory
Three Narrated Lives
Genre : Encomiastic Bios
Encomiastic Compositions
Bios
Weaving Lives and Lives : Gregory's Stated Purpose and the Reader
Virtue and Text
The Reader
Reading and the Woven Garment
Plan of the Book
Prooimia and Gregory's Literary Craft
Beginnings in Rhetoric
Introductions in the Bioi
Thaumaturgus, VGT 1-3
Moses, VM I.1-15
Macrina, VSM 1
Conclusion
Exemplar and Reader : The Genos of an Interpreter
The Origin of an Exemplar
Universalizing Genos
Thaumaturgus, VGT 4-10
Macrina, VSM 2
Moses, VM I.16 and II.1-5
Anatrophe : Transformation and Constancy
Raising an Exemplar
Upbringing in the Bioi
Macrina : Gold and the Athlete
Moses : Fighting for Virtue
Thaumaturgus : Plants and Husbandry
Bringing up Readers : An Imitable Christian Paideia
Developmental Stages and Modes of Learning : An Analytic
Three Developmental Stages
Modes of Learning : The Three Rs
Exemplary Paideia
Early Aptitude and the Turn from Worldly Concerns
Macrina, VSM 3-4
Thaumaturgus, VGT 11-22
Moses, VM I.17-19 and VM II.6-18
Advancing by Way of Retreat
Moses, VM I.20-22 and VM II.19-53
Thaumaturgus, VGT 23-27
Macrina, VSM 5-11
Reproducing Exemplary Learning
Moses, VM I.29 and VM II.112-116
Thaumaturgus, VGT 28ff
Macrina, VSM 12ff
The Fourth-century Audience and Paideia
Reading
Relationships
Revelation
Seeing Praxeis, Seeing Virtue
Virtuous Praxeis : Soul Made Visible
Narrating Praxeis
Christian Platonic Anthropology in the Bioi
Vision and Epistemology in Reading Bioi
Beyond the Senses : Vision and Communication
Readings of Revelation
Problematizing Physical Sense Perception in Revelations
Rehabilitating Sense Perception for Narrative
Vision in the Desert, VGT 28-34
The Tabernacle, VM II.169
Dream Vision, VSM 2
Interpreting Praxeis : Practicing Virtue
Training the Eyes : Vision as a Metric of Success
Internal Audiences and Readers' Mimesis
Internal Audiences on a Spectrum
Internal Audience as Model
Seeing with a Community
The Invitation to See : Vision and Imaginative Participation
Eyewitnesses across Time
The Author's Voice
Shared Sense
"To live with the senses, " VSM 11
Imagining Frogs, VM II.68-72
Thaumaturgus as a Test Case, VGT 79-88
Thanatos : Narrating a Death, Reading a Life
Narrating the Final Praxis : Thanatos and Euthanasia
Encomiastic Bios and Thanatos as Praxis
Last Words
Reactions of Witnesses
Events after Death
Summary
Thanatos : the Exemplar's Life in Death
Thaumaturgus : The Exemplar's Sojourn
Moses and the Next Life
Noble Death in the Historia, VM I.75-76
Incorruptibility in the Theoria, VM II.305-318
Imitating Incorruptibility
Macrina's Holy Body
Last Words : The Deathbed Prayer, VSM 22-25
Macrina's Corpse
Healing Blindness, VSM 36-39
Conclusion : The Garment of Virtue and the Weaver's Craft
Concluding a Bios
Weaving Lives for Virtuous Readers
Bibliography
Index of References
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Subjects.
Notes:
Revised thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Chicago, 2016.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-267) and indexes.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9783161575594
3161575598
Publisher Number:
99988444160
9783161575587
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