14 St, Gregory of Nyssa

St. Gregory of Nyssa

Theologian of Life in the Spirit
In the last chapters, I spoke of two great fourth-century Doctors of the Church, Basil and Gregory of Nazianzus, a bishop in Cappadocia, in present-day Turkey. Today, we are adding a third, St. Gregory of Nyssa, Basil’s brother, who showed himself to be a man disposed to
meditation with a great capacity for reflection and a lively intelligence open to the culture of his time. He has thus proved to be an original and profound thinker in the history of Christianity…

Taken from Great Christian Thinkers by Pope Benedict XVI