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T1  - Gregory of Nyssa’s Sequence of Topographical Symbols as a Pattern of Spiritual Progress 
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UR  - URN:NBN:fi:hulib-201705314348; http://hdl.handle.net/10138/191468 
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A1  - Lindgren, Lasse 
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PB  - Helsingin yliopisto 
Y1  - 2017 
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AB  - This study focuses on the exegesis of Gregory of Nyssa, a 4th century exegete, a Church Father, and one of the three Cappadocian Fathers. The main primary source of my thesis is Gregory’s treatise The Life of Moses, an intriguing example of Patristic exegesis based on the Exodus narrative. The main purpose of Gregory’s treatise is not to make a historical presentation of the journey of Moses and the Israelites, but to elevate the reader into a higher state of consciousness in order to perceive t... 
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KW  - Gregory of Nyssa; early Christianity; patristics; allegory; mysticism; interpretation; exodus; Systematik teologi; Systematic theology; Systemaattinen teologia 
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