Ascetic and Moral Treatises (On Virginity, On Infants' Early Deaths, On Pilgrimages)

Saint Gregory of Nyssa · c. 372 AD

Ante-Nicene Fathers (Roberts–Donaldson), Roberts, Donaldson, and Coxe (eds.), Ante-Nicene Fathers, Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing, 1885–1887; digitized by CCEL.

Younger brother of St Basil the Great and St Macrina; Bishop of Nyssa. The most speculative and mystical of the Cappadocians. His Against Eunomius continues and completes his elder brother's defence of the Nicene faith; his Great Catechism is the foundational dogmatic catechesis of the Eastern Church; his Life of Moses and Commentary on the Song of Songs are pivotal texts of patristic mystical theology and the Eastern doctrine of epektasis (perpetual progress into God).

Contents

1. On Virginity(26 chapters)
2. On Infants' Early Deaths(1 chapter)
3. On Pilgrimages(1 chapter)