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Theology, Politics, and Radiant Darkness: Michæl Motia on Gregory of Nyssa

Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

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The Unknowable God of Arius

Gregory says God is not the kind of thing that you could wrap your arms or mind around. Gregory and his, his critiques of this starts to increasingly talk about this idea of divine infinity. It's a radical claim of like the kind of simple knowledge of a simple God. But I think it does kind of fit within a broader, late ancient context,. Like listeners are really aware that names do a lot of work in late antiquity.

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